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THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
May 28, 1954
CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
Published monthly throughout the school year by the students
of CHARLOTTE COLLEGP:, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Staff
Editor Gleen Keever
Assistant Editor Martha Stogner
Business Manager John Kilgo
f'aculty Advisor Miss Mary Denny
To John Kilgo
Kdifor C'harloUe ('ollef>ian 1!)54-1!)55
John, you are taking over a jot) I know you can till and
will fill to be highest of your abilities. . . . May I wish you
luck, and tel! you somethinK of what it is like.
You will Ret fed up at times, at times nothinjr will go right.
Promised articles won’t come in, and you will write them your
self. You will stay up nights working to give the students a
newspaper. You will miss your deadline. Miss Denny will keep
after you, and you will walk for miles up and down these halls
searching for articles, and when everything is in and the proof
comes back, your headache just begins. Then you find nothing
seems to fit where you wanted it to.
Sounds bad, doesn’t it, John? Well, it isn’t really. It’s fun.
When you come to the end of the year, you can look back as
I am doing now and say, “I enjoyed every minute of it, and if
I had it to do over, I wouldn’t change a thing except, maybe I
would try a little harder.”
Seriously, best of luck John. I hope you enjoy editing this
paper as much as I have. I know you will do a good job.
I wish to thank also the students of Charlotte College for
making me editor of the CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN this year.
I wish I could have done a better job. Many thanks also to my
staff. I feel Martha Stogner has done more on the paper this
year than I. “Thanks, IMartha.”
That about does it. It’s all yours, John. GLENN KEEVER
Valedictory
Another year is almost over as far as school work is con
cerned. Here at Charlotte College this year has been an event
ful one, one we will never forget. It seems a long time since
we entered here as scared freshmen, setting sail on a sea about
which we were not sure. The time has flown and we have
matured somewhere along the way. We feel better able to face
life now than we did two years ago.
This last year has been very eventful. It has been an up
and down year, but always fun. Our basketball team had an
other of “those years.” They didn’t win many games, but they
scrapped and they enjoyed it. None of them will forget soon
that upset they pulled off against Gardner-Webb. They lacked
the time and the material to be a great basketball team, but we
are proud of them.
We are proud also of our Student Council officers and the
job they have done this year. It has been a long time since a
slate of officers accomplished so much at Charlotte College.
When they announced their platform last year before their
election, few of us dreamed that they would accomplish their
goals to such an extent. For proof that they have, one need
only witness the “Owls Roost.” Few of us realize the work it
took to get this school store started. Also, next year the pub
lishing of the school annual will be a much easier job because
it is now under the Student Council and will be included in the
activity fee. The school socials this year have been a greater
success than ever before, as was shown by the attendance at
the Christmas Dance and the Fresh-Grad Dance. They were
well planned and well organized. So we should all be proud of
our officers and the job they have done.
Thanks to a lot of work, we do have an annual this year.
Gary Langhorst and his staff have really worked hard, and
I am sure all of us appreciate their labor. Also, I would like
to extend my personal thanks to all who have helped put out
the school paper this year. They have all done a great job.
Nothing could express our appreciation to our faculty.
They have given us untiring help through all of our problems
and guided our ways in the right. We will never forget them.
This about caps off this year at Charlotte College. I’m sure
we all have many pleasant memories of it, whether it be of
field trips, classes, new friends, or the socials. We have had
fun, we have learned and we will miss Charlotte College next
year, those of us who will not return. To those who will return,
we leave you a growing school that we love.
GLENN KEEVER.
So Long For A While To Keever And Stogner
The sayinfc goes that “parting:
is such sweet sorrow,” but I would
rather differ with Romeo and say
that “parting: is such sorrow.” No
doubt the hearts of the jjraduates
are heavy as they realize that in
just a few days their duration at
Charlotte College will be at an end
and that the time for parting is
drawing nigh.
We have many fond memories
of C. C. which will remain for
ever in our thoughts. We will re
member our early days at C. C.
when we first became aware of
the fact that we knew so little
and had so much to learn. We
were excited over the idea of
being a collegian. Everyone was
a stranger to us, and everything
was new' to us. Now we walk
down the halls and every face is
familiar; we have made friends
that will be life-long. We will
remember the round-table dis
cussions in the library, the coffee
hours in the Home Ec room, the
two-hour labs and the field trips,
the elections and campaign
speeches, and the sandwiches at
the Owl’s Roost. We will remem
ber the meetings in the library
until the late hours of the night,
and we will remember Frances’s
hurrying us to leave so that she
could put out the lights and lock
the doors. We will remember our
struggles with French and Span
ish. our cramming for tests, our
theme assignments in English,
and our racing down the halls to
beat the bell More important
than these, we will remember
how hard we worked to achieve
knowledge; we will remember the
efforts we all exerted to per
suade the people of Charlotte to
vote in favor of the tax levy,
and we will remember the joy
experienced when we won. We
will always remember the one
who has urged us on and gave us
inspiration when we were down
and out—we will always remem
ber your friend and mine, Bonnie
Cone.
As we the Class of '54 bid adieu
to our C. C. friends, we leave a
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Another school year is just about
ready to come to an end and with
it goes out this last edition of the
Charlotte Collegian, It is only ap
propriate that the student body here
at C. C. should extend their whole
hearted thanks to Martha Stogner
and Glenn Keever for the great job
they have done for us this year in
regards to our fine school paper.
Glenn w’as the untiring young
man who walked miles and miles
down the halls trying to find edi
torials that would be of varied in
terest to the students. Week ends
and holidays were spent by him
working on the paper. Although the
outlook was sometimes very dis
mal, Glenn never uttered a com
plaining remark.
In addition to being editor of the
paper, Glenn was a better than av
erage student. Glenn worked full
time at the A & P warehouse be
fore coming to school in the after
noon. And to top it all off, Glenn
was a standout performer on this
year’s basketball team. Don’t feel
too sorry for Glenn, because if he
ever got into a real tough jam he
could always call on his ever-reli-
able assistant, Martha Stogner.
And WOW, what an assistant!
Martha had her hands full run
ning the paper over to the printer
in order to make a publication dead
line. Besides this, Martha was al
ways full of wonderful suggestions
that aided Glenn immensely in fill
ing up the paper.
Martha was also an honor stu
dent as well as holding dow'n a full
time job in the Reading Center at
First Ward School. Although she
was not a basketball star like Glenn,
she was by far the most loyal fan
in the entire student body.
Martha and Glenn did such a ter
rific job that it makes it hard for
someone else to move in and try
to take up where they left off.
Yours truly is the one who is
going to step in and try to keep
The Collegian moving.
Next year we hope to have a few
ads in the paper in each edition.
The money we make off the adver
tising will be used so that the for
mer students of Charlotte College
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