VOL. 3—NO. 1
CHARLOTTE COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE. N. C.
SEPTEMBER 18, 1951
C C.^ ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FORMED
HOYLE RECEIVES FORD FELLOWSHIP
Bill Senn Elected '
Alumni President
iWwfSt uf the I)rnanlzatiun.s con- I
II. clcd vvitli (.'iKirlotle College, hut |
lai'K'■■'t ■>' membership anil one of I
the most active, is the recently or- '
Kani/.eil Charlotte College .Xlimini i
,\ssociatiuii. With ail active mem- I
hership of tliirty-nine and a po-
ttiitial membership of several hun
dred, the .Miimni Association of
ficially :4ot under way wit.h the
adoption of by-laws at the July
0 ineetiiiK of the organization.
The idea of establishin.'f the
ahimni fjronp was being considered
by a number of students of the
collecre during the final quarter of
last year. No concrete action was
taken, however, until after the
close of the school year. During
June and early in July several in
formal meeting.s were held by the
group of interested students and
alumni. I’lans were made for an
organizational meeting to be held
on the evening of July 9. The col
lege files were combed ancl notices
of the meeting were mai'ed to
every former student of the col
lege. A committee was appointed
to draw u|) a set of by-laws to be i
presented at the first meeting.
\ total of thirty-five person-
attended the July meeting. C)fficeis
were elected for the coming year,
incliiding Hill Senn, President;
Hugh Adams, \ ice-president; Joan :
I’ostoii, Recording Secretary; I
I )eaiie kichards'on, Corresiionilin;.; ‘
Secretary, and I’hilip liurkhalter, I
'I'reasiTer. The by-laws drafted b> I
the special committee were read
and each section of each article
was voted on separately. num
ber of amendments were propo.sed
by the nieinberahip, and several of
these changes were incorporated
in the by-laws which were ap
proved by the .Association.
At the July 9 meeting a Finance
Committee consisting of Carole
Hinson, chairman; Deane Richard
son, and Brice McLaughlin was
appointed to consider and to
recommend to the Association
plans for raising funds for operat
ing expenses and for special proj
ects which the Association might
sponsor during the coming school
year.
Plans for the immediate future
by the Alumni Association include
a campaign for more active mem
bers. .All graduates of Charlotte
College, who took courses leading
to a degree, but who did not grad
uate, and all special students en
rolled during a regular session of
the college are eligible for mem
bership in the .Association. The
goal of the Association is one hun
dred active members by the end
of this school year.
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Bill Senn and Carole Hinson unload one of the many donations of scrap paper that made the Sigma
Pi Alpha foreign student English course possible.
SIGMA PI ALPHA SPONSORS COURSE
If someone were to ask you if
you had ever heard ‘’America’'
sung, you would no doubt answer
"yes." However, 1 am afraid there
are many who would answer
"yes" who had not really heard
“.America.” Until a few weeks ago,
I was one of those people.
I had the honor of being present
at the closing e.Kercises of a class
being sponsored here at Charlotte
College. It was at this class that
I first heard ".America" really
being sung, and 1 gathered for the
first time the real meaning in
scribed in those melodious stanzas.
I heard the meaningful words of
this truly great song coming from
the mouths of people from all parts
of Europe—France, Greece, Ger
many, Hungary, I’oland, Latvia,
Charlotte College is a two-year junior college administered
by the School Board of the City of Charlotte as a part of the
public school system.
Charlotte College is accredited by The North Carolina
State Department of Education and is a member of the North j
Carolina College Conference, the Southern Association of Junior |
Colleges, and the American Association of Junior Colleges, Credits '
earned at Charlotte College in curricula leading to degrees are
transferable to senior colleges and universities.
Classrooms and the College office are located in the Cen
tral High School building at 1141 Elizabeth Avenue. Classes
are scheduled daily Monday through Friday during the school
year from 4 P. M. until 10 P. M.
and Italy. A thrill went through
my heart as I listened to the voices
of these eighty representatives of
many nationalities, combining their
voices together to sing these words
of freedom in the language of our
own God-blessed America.
.'\lmost everybody at Charlotte
College has heard of the F^nglish-
speaking class for foreign students,
but few are familiar with the work
of this class and its importance
to our community. Last January
this class was begun at Charlotte
College to teach English, free of
charge, to Latvians, living in
Charlotte and its vicinity. There
were about twenty persons enrolled
in this first class. The class has
grown with leaps and bounds, tak
ing in all members of all nation
alities, until there are nearly eighty
persons now attending these ses
sions. Teachers from others schools
in the city donate their time and
instruct these immigrants at a sal
ary minimized to cover only the
expenses of transportation to and
from the school.
If the funds for this class were
in any way equal to the progress
made by the students, the means
would be substantial to continue
these courses indefinitely. Unfor
tunately, the funds set aside for
expenses of textbooks and teachers
have been exhausted. In order to
continue this worthy cause, more
money is needed; and it is neces
sary to offer these classes free of
charge to all the stuilents, since
most of them are financially un
able to attend otherwise.
Sigma Pi Alpha, the language
fraternity of Charlotte College, has
undertaken the project of securing
enough funds to continue this
F'nglish-speaking class for another
year. The principle source of this
money will come from scrap paper
collected and sold by members of
Sigma Pi Alpha. This city-wide
paper drive has been in progress
since June and will continue
through September. Over $75.00 in
cash has been collected so far,
and anyone who has visited the
Student Union Building here at
Charlotte College has seen the re
sults of the recent collections—
approximately two tons of maga
zines, pa]iers, anil cardboard, do-
tKited by over l.SO Charlotte citi
zens! The amount needed to fi
nance this class, meeting twice a
week for two hours each meeting,
for one year is $360.00. .A lot more
paper is still needed to reach the
goal! That is why Sigma Pi .Alpha
would like to offer every student
at Charhjtte College the opportu
nity to have a part in this drive.
Bv contacting the Charlotte Col
lege office, anyone interested in
donating some scrap paper to this
cause can have it picked up by the
fraterniy at an early date.
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Ford Foundation
Honors CC Instructor
HuKlies H. Hoyle, professor of
inathcniutics and physics at Queens
Collect* aiul njathenialics instruc
tor at Charlotte College, has been
«rantt‘{| a year’s graduate fellow-
sliip l) l>e financed by the Ford
Koundation Fund for the Advance-
nu-ni of F.ducation.
i\lr. hJoyle will be on leave of
abscnce from Queens to attend a
college or university of his choice,
duriuK which time he will receive
the e(|uivalent of his year\s salary
at Queens, tuition at the institu
tion he chooses and traveling ex
penses in connection with the
work.
Flolding A. ii. and M. A, de-
ees from the University of
North Carolina, the Queens pro-
lessor also completed 34 semester
Hours of work toward an advanced
degree at New \’ork University.
His field of study is the teaching
of matlicmatics on the college level
and his dissertation will be on a
metliod of investigating algebraic
functions and of finding the irra-
tiniial r(jots of algebraic e(|uations
by the use of finite differences.
Mr. Hoyle, who is a native of
Kasltrn North Carolina, has been
a member of the Queens faculty
since 19-15 and also has taught at
Charlotte College. h'ormerly he
taught mathematics and physics at
Central High School and at high
•mIiooIs at Cha]>el Hill and New
port News, Va. He has been on
the faculty of William and Mary
and Limestone Colleges.
He is listed in “American Men
of Science,’* “Who’s Who in the
South and Southwest,” and “Who’s
Who in American Kducation.” He
is a member of the American As
sociation of University of I’rofes-
sors, the North Carolina Academy
of Science, the National Council
of Teachers of Mathematics, the
Mathematical Association of
America, the American Associa
tion of Physics Teachers and the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science.
Mr. Hoyle plans to make his
headcjuarters at either New York
University or Columbia University
while studying on his fellowship.
He also plans to visit several of
the Southern colleges this year.
David Littlejohn
Wins Scholarship
David Littlejohn, former presi
dent of the student body at Char
lotte College is the recipient of
a four-year scholarship to the Uni
versity of I'arcelona in Spain. The
scholarship will cover his expenses
at the L’niversity for four year’s
study of Spanish I.iterature.
After Mr. Littlejohn finished
here at CC, he went on to the
University of North Carolina
where he majored in Spanish and
graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1950.
h'nr the last year he has been em
ployed by the State Department in
Washington.
He plans to return to Charlotte
early in October in order to spend
a few weeks with his parents be
fore leaving for Spain.