Friday, December 18, 1959
THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
Coach Gene Todd of the C. C. Owls has turned out to be
quite a prophet. Todd ventured the opinion that without
some good, tall boys out for the basketball team, it would
be a long winter, and the cold has certainly set in.
The Owls, playing before pack
ed crowds (all on one row of
seats), have gone down five out of
six times.
With the majority of the players
working and unable to make many
of the road trips, the Owls have
been short on reserves. ' On one
road trip earlier in the season,
Charlotte College had only six
players. But easy-going Coach
Todd has not given up by a long
shot. He is in the process now of
getting some excellent players in
starting the Winter Quarter. As
Coach Todd put it, “If we can get
together enough players to finish
out the fall quarter, I think we’ll
get some help next quarter.”
The proipectf, uniuimed by
Coach Todd, are thought to be
■ome former top notch high
•chool boys that are switching
schools or have dropped out.
Let’s hope that when we come
back after Christmas we will have
a little better team. The boys that
are out now are good, but with
more depth we should be better
prepared. In the first few games
our boys have just run out of gas.
Everyone is talking about it,
but no one is doing anything about
the attendance at the home games.
It is this writer’s opinion that if
Charlotte College ever plans to be-
cr'ne a large and thriving institu
tion, sports will have to play a big
part. Not that sports are to be
parallel to education, but every
business has to have a drawing card
for business, and in colleges and
universities, it is sports.
The faculty and student body
should both come to life and get
behind the team. At the rate
We are going now Charlotte
College will be a big school in
ten years, but how will our
athletic teams be getting along.
Unless the people in the school
wake up, we probably will not
even have a team.
A hopeful thought for headlines in
the Charlotte Observer in 1960:
Charlotte College vs. North Caro
lina in the Charlotte Coliseum.
HIS SPOKEN TRUTHS
PROCLAIM
EVERLASTING
PEACE IN THE
iBROTHERHOOD
OF MAN
For many of us, Christmas re
presents that one special time
throughout each year when all of
our joys and all of our desires
seem to culminate into one occasion
that is fondest in our memories.
It tends to hold a reverent place
in our make-up that gives meaning
to all the high moments which we
have experienced--a time when
trouble seems to be forgiven, or
at least set aside for awhile. It is
that season which stands alone
among the others with a special
theme as found in Abou Ben Ad-
hem’s immortal plea that he be
written as one who loved his
fellow-men. But why? Where is
the reasoning for this spirit of
love? Suppose we examine Chris
tmas in the past.
Remember those times when the
excitement over the coming of
Saint Nick was vested in a spirit
which was in reality a truth beyond
understanding—a truth that made
the possibility of a power greater
than man something tangibly real;
or those times, as we were growing
older, when Christmas meant the
re-uniting of our families to share
each other’s joys in the spirit of
belonging one to the other. As
time moved on, and giving began
to have more meaning than receiv
ing, remember those special gifts,
bought with great care and lovingly
put away for the final moment.
Yes, these were happy times. But
why? Where is the reasoning for
this spirit of happiness—happiness
and love? Suppose we examine
the Christmas story.
For unto us was born a child
whose spoken truths have pro
claimed everlasting peace for the
brotherhood of man. Here is our
reason, lest we forget, in the
eternal hope created by a child,
born in the spirit of love that this
truth might be paramount in the
heart of man.
Dick Buckey
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The Macys
Visit France
Last summer Dr. Macy, of the
foreign language department, and
his wife took a trip to France,
the first they had taken in ten
years. The primary purpose of
the trip, stated Dr. Macy, was to
visit his father who is almost 100
years of age.
On June 8 Dr. and Mrs. Macy
left New York aboard the Ariadne,
the only ship available at the time.
Their first stop was at the port of
St. Miguel in the Azores. Dr.
Macy described the islands as a
paradise. He said that deluxe
hotel accommodations were only
about $4.00 a day.
After landing in France at the
port of Cherbourg on the 18th of
June, Dr. and Mrs. Macy caught
a train to Paris, where they stayed
for about three days. “The weather
was the most beautiful in Paris
that it had been in almost 100
years,” said Dr. Macy. While in
Paris the Macys visited all the
places of interest and saw all the
sights just as the average tourist
might do. When asked what he
thought of Paris after ten years.
Dr. Macy said, “Paris was renewed
from the war. The people have
such an optimistic outlook on life.”
From Paris the Macys then went
to Nancy, where Dr. Macy
spent several days visiting his
father and the familiar places
in that part of France.
Upon leaving Nancy, Dr. and
Mrs. Macy then returned to Paris
to plan a tour of southern Europe.
The first stop on their journey
was Italy. There they visited all the
famous cities such as Rome, Venice,
Milan, Naples and Florence. Since
Dr. Macy speaks Italian as well as
five other languages, he had no
trouble in getting accommodations
or reservations.
While in Europe, the Macys
also visited Switzerland, and in
the French Alps they went to
the foot of Mount Blanc, the
highest peak in Europe.
After seeing much of Europe,
the Macys once more returned to
Paris to make preparations for
their trip home. While in Paris,
Dr. Macy purchased approximately
225 French and Spanish books for
the language department at Char-
lotte College.
Nearing the end of their trip,
Dr. and Mrs. Macy had the pleas
ure’ of seeing President Charles
de Gaulle of France and President
Eisenhower making a public
appearance in Paris. Dr. Macy
said that the crowds were quite
large and that the response to their
appearance was enormous.
On their return home they
were aboard the Dutch ship,
NEW ROTTERDAM, which was
on her maiden voyage and was
carrying the crown princess of
Holland, who was making reh
first voyage to the United
States.
Dr. Macy said that the trip was
one of the most enjoyable he had
ever taken. He said that seeing
the great number of American
tourists in France gave the im
pression that the bonds of friend
ship between France and the
United States were growing ever
stronger.
Dr. S. Fred Singer
Astrophysics is one of the old
est and most fundamental of the
physical sciences; it provided, for
example, much of the basis and
proof of Newton’s Laws of Motion
and of Einstein’s Relativity Theo
ries. Recognized as one of the
outstanding young astrophysicists
in the world today is Dr. S. Fred
Singer, associate Professor of
Physics at the University of Mary
land. The youthful looking scien
tist came to Chariotte College on
Monday, November 30, at 7:15 P.M.
to address the Charlotte College
Student Body.
Dr. Singer’s contributions to the
field of upper air research are
many and broad, including over
100 papers on his researches in
co.;mic rays, meteorities, design of
rockets and satellite vehicles and
space travel. In 1946 he began
work with German V-2 and Amer
ican-made Aerobee rockets for
high altitude cosmic ray research.
While on the staff of John Hopkins
University’s Applied Physics Lab
oratory, he designed the first min
iaturized instruments for high al
titude rocket research. He led the
first group to measure the earth’s
magnetic field 100 miles up, and
he- was the first to discover and
measure electric currents flowing
in the upper atmosphere, an im
portant contribution to radio com
munication.
One of his major contributions
towards facilitating the study of
rocketry and astrophysics at the
university level has been as the
leader in the design and develop
ment of three small, inexpensive
rockets for upper air research. In
1951, Dr, Singer made the first
practical public proposal for the
design, development and establish
ment of small scientific earth
satellite. Artificial satellites con-
taining many of the features of
Dr. Singer’s MOUSE (Minimum
Orbital Unmanned Satellite of the
Earth) proposal will be launched
during the International Geophys
ical Year by the Vangard Project.
He further contributed to the
present satellite program by writ
ing and pushing through resolu
tions at three international meet
ings that formed the basis for the
current IGY satellite efforts around
the world. In the U.S. program,
he is designing gear to measure
erosion of the satellite by meteoric
dust and other particles.
Always looking ahead, Dr. Singer
is consultant to the Martin Com
pany on the development of even
more advanced satellites and is
also consultant to AVCO Research
Laboratory doing work on the de
velopment of Intercontinental Bal
listics Missiles.
The current FAR SIDE project
for sending a series of research
rockets thousands of miles into
outer spare - eventually to the
moon - owes its existence to Dr.
Singer, who thought up the orig
inal concept, worked out the basic
design and sold the U.S. Air Force
on its feasibility. He is now de
signing and building some of its
instrumentation.
In all of his activities, including
proposals for satellites and space
vehicles, it is Dr. Singer’s aim to
investigate the properties of outer
space and to apply this information
to human welfare. For example,
he has even suggested a peaceful
scientific use of H-borabs to in
vestigate the nature of space be
tween moon and earth. He has
I Was A Teen-
Age Worm
N.ot since the last B. Bardot
picture has there been a more sur-
praised or more happy boy than I,
when I received an application
form for Sigma Lamdba Chi Fra
ternity. One cannot fully describe
his feelings because they are a mix.
ture of joy and worry. Joy over
being asked and worry because
ever3^one has heard something
about frat initiations, and from
the many mouth-to-ear conversa
tions the tale soon loses all re
semblance to the truth. There is
really only one way to get the real
truth, and that is to wet your feet.
So I did!
Monilay is the hardest day of
all, because you don’t know ex
actly what to expect from the
Brothers or from th e student
body.
Armed with your trusty paddle,
eggs, and your ever-popular De
merit Book, you try to sneak, un
noticed, to class. Just as ycm
arrive about three feet away from
safety, somebody yells, “Air Raid,
Worm,” and it’s Katy-Bar-The-
Door in trying to fling yourself
into a prostrate position, all th6
while guarding those delicate eggs.
Tuesday starts out as a good day;
you get ten merit points for being
a good worm. This makes you
proud. You think you’re as good
as in! You’ve got it made! You
get cocky! This is just what they’ve
been waiting for.
“Worm Merritt, I want yon
to sit on Worn Sledge’s lap and
cry like you never cried before!”
“Worm, bend over.”
“Worm, what’s my name?”
“Mister Frank Brown.”
“Bend over, Worm. It’s sir to us.”
“Worm, where’s your Demerit
book?”
And so it goes for the rest of
the week.
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shown how the present small sat
ellite could be used as a world
wide weather station. Such long
range forecasts would benefit not
only the farmer but practically
every segment of business activity,
adding billions to our national in
come and raising the general stan
dard of living.
In a long article published in
the U.S. News and World Report
after the Russion launching of
Sputnik I, Dr. Singer declared that
he was convinced that “we are do
ing quite well in our missile-devel-
opment programs and about on a
par with the Russians . . .as far as
space-flight projects are concerned,
I am convinced that we can set up
and should set up an imaginative
program based on existing missiles
and existing ‘hardware’ which
would be more than an answer to
present Russian success.’’