Vol. 5, No. 2
Charlotte College, Charlotte, N. C.
November 13, 1953
Pictured above are some C. C. Students Enjoying the Recent Corn Ball
Sparger New C. C. Coach Thanksgiving Thoughts
Well, basketball fans, Charlotte
College is about ready to embark
on another year of basketball, and
also, ready to guide us is George
Sparger. The new prospects around
Charlotte College and a new coach
make the outlook for this year very
bright as compared to last year’s
weak season.
George Sparger is by no means
a stranger around Charlotte or
around the state. His athletic ca
reer is extensive, dating back to
his successful athletic years in high
school. He was a champion in his
weight while boxing in the Navy
in the Pacific, a co-captain and star
of the University of North Caro
lina Tarheel’s football team of
1947. He was a member of the team
along with Charlie Justice in his
early college years. Walt Pupa was
another member of this team. The
team had a very successful season,
successful enough to win them
selves a bid to the Sugar Bowl
which they accepted.
After completion of college,
Coach Sparger became assistant
football coach under Bill Brannin
in 1949 and 1950. In January of
1951, he became head basketball
coach at Central for three years.
In 1951, he was head football coach
at Central.
He left the coaching business in
1952 for a venture into the busi-
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With thanksgiving fast ap
proaching it is not too soon for
each and every one of us to begin
saying, “Thank you God. Thank
you for giving me the chance to
live as a free person in a free
world. Thank you for making it
possible for me to go to college.
Thank you for the peace in Korea,
for stopping the needless slaying
of my brother, my boy friend, my
neighbor. Thank you for making
me an American.”
All too often too many of us,
troubled by our everyday affairs,
forget our many blessings. But as
Socrates once said: “If all our
misfortunes were laid on one com
mon heap, whence everyone must
take an equal portion, most people
would be content to take their own
and depart.” So this Thanksgiving
let’s stop for just a moment and
count our blessings.
PHOTO'S NEEDED—Turn these
photos into Miss .(oyce Dunn, Sec'y
for Charlotte College. I must have
these snapshots, and other type of
pictures before the 15th of Jan
uary 1954 . . . All pictures will be
used if they meet engravers re
quirements.
Please help on this matter, for
it is your annual and we want it
make it a little personal, so you
can be proud of it.
Dr. MiColiey
Says one chemist to another,
“How come?” And to whom do
they pro for the answer? You
guessed it—Dr. McCoIiey. No one
is more qualified to g'ive them the
answer than this lively, unpre
dictable bundle of enerj?y. Born in
Iowa, he attended Phillips Acad
emy in Andover, Massachusetts.
He received his Ph.B. and his A.M.
at Brown University and his Ph.D.
at Boston University. He is now
W’ith the Celanese Cori)oration in
Rock Hill, S. C.
He is a mathematical genius and
we students, unlike our teacher,
groan and chew our pencils and
attempt to look cheerful through
those blank looks on our faces
while he fills up the board with
figures and equations. He has a
very pleasing habit of springing a
joke right in the middle of an ex
planation, which accounts for the
unsuppressed mirth spilling from
the room during his lecture periods.
And, typical (as I’ve heard) of
college pi'ofessors, he even “jumps
up and down” and “shouts” if we
are late for class. He is a shining
example of the atoms and mole
cules he is always talking about;
now he’s here! now he’s there!
I’m sure everyone who has come
in contact with him will agree that
his sparkling personality “wins
friends and influences people”
w^herever he goes. We welcome Dr.
McColiey to Charlotte College and
we sincerely hope that he will like
us as much as we like him.
JANET TODD.
Elections
The following officers for the
Sophomore Class were elected on
October 1.3th: President Bill Davis,
Vice-President, Ronald Patterson,
and Secretary-Treasurer, Marjorie
Lotshaw. Also elected at this time
were business managers for the
annual and school paper. Margaret
Falkenberg will serve as business
manager of the annual while John
Kilgo will fulfill that position for
the school paper.
Hugo Misle, Charlotte College
student from Quito, Equador, spoke
recently before the Quota Club
during United Nations week. Hugo
used as his subject his native coun
try of Equador and gave a lively
talk.
United Appeal
As your United Appeal, your one
great campaign to meet Charlotte
and Mecklenburg County’s major
health, welfare, and recreation
needs—swung into action in mid-
October—already behind it was a
year of tried and proven success
attesting to the soundness of this
“one goal, one time, one gift” for
your more than 20 vital community
services.
In this year we have seen gener
ous dividends earned for the fast-
growing community in which we
live, because of our support of the
United Appeal. Eight fewer cam
paigns have solicited our contribu
tions in 1952-53 than in previous
years. Thousands of dollars were
thereby saved in campaign costs,
and could be applied to the actual
services whose job is to see that
our community continues to be a
wholesome, healthy environment in
which to live. Thousands of hours
were saved in the effort of volun
teers who conduct this necessary
fund-raising job; more money was
raised for all services; more peo
ple—some 45,000 individual givers
—gave than ever before and funds
were more effectively matched to
actual needs.
Your fair share gift will mean
that throughout the coming year
you underwrite—and may continue
to turn, for yourself or your own
family or someone you know, to
any of the vital community services
which includes all types of assist
ance, from help with personal or
family troubles, problems caused
by illness or absence of parents
from the home, care of children,
Day Nursery and foster home care,
problems of unmarried mother
hood, home-maker service in temp
orarily disrupted homes, adoption
placement, assistance for burned
out families and other disasters,
aid to the handciapped and blind,
prevention and treatment of be
havior and emotional problems and
mental illness, emergency financial
aid, transient lodging, aid to trav
elers, youth programs and services.
Abraham Lincoln—Suppose you
go to war, you cannot fight al
ways; and when, after much loss
on both sides, and no gain r ■ eith
er, you cease fighting, ihe identil
cal old questions are again upon
you.