The Clmrlotte Collegian
Voice of the Students
Volume XIII
Monday, May 1, 1961
No. 5
CC HAS NEW SKYLINE
Advance
Courses
Offered
AtCC
By Chris Collins
The North Carolina State College
School of Engineering is in its
third year of offering advanced
courses at Charlotte College. A-
mong the courses which currently
are being offered in the evening
are third and fourth year and
graduate courses. “The course in
Estimates and Costs was dropped
because of insufficient enrollment,”
said Dr. Herbert A. Lynch, head
of the Charlotte Department,
School of Engineering.
Stipulations for admission are
set up by the school at Raleigh.
Dr. Lynch said that the Charlotte
Department will accept any credits
transferred from another school,
provided the credits are “approved
in Raleigh.”
N. C. State appropriated $1,200
for books to be placed in the,
library at CC as source material
for the engineering courses The
average cost per book was $10.
Thanks to Mrs. Scherger and her
staff, the books have already been
placed in the stacks and are await
ing the hands of any CC student
who has the courage to tackle
them.
Dr. Lynch said that there are
great possibilities for an advanced
engineerinjg school at CC. Much
money could make these possibil
ities become the reality of labora
tory equipment for third and fourth
year engineering a t the new
Charlotte College.
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“First Phase” buildings on CC’s new
campus have already reached their full
height and are rapidly being closed in
by walls and windows.
GOVERNOR TO APPOINT COMMITTEE
CC May Become 4 'Yr. College
Reprinted from the Charlotte Observer
The chairman of the State Board of Higher Education Friday held the door oper.
to the future expansion of Charlotte College into a four-year institution.
Buildings
Rise Rapidly
On New
Campus
By Grace C, Nicholls
Construction of the liberal arts
and science-engineering building on
the new Charlotte College campus
is progressing according to sched
ule. Both buildings have the roof
finished, and the penthouse is
covered. Window frames are al
ready being set into place.
Construction is expected to con
tinue on schedule. Brick for the
outer walls of the two buildings
lias arrived and is already one-
fo’-rth way up on two sides of
the science-engineering building and
beginning to show on the other
sides. The brick being'used is a
modernistic type of very light pink
in modular design. It is beinig. used
to create the effect of panels four
Speaking to the Charlotte Civitan Club, Maj. L. P. McLendon said, “The governor* f^et m length.
will soon appoint an advisory committee to advise (the board of higher education)
with respect to desirable changes in the community College Act and the formulation of
standards for the establishment of additional four-year colleges, when and where they
are needed.
**Let me hasten to &nl
especially because of the in*
terest shown in Charlotte for a
four-year college, that a com
munity college and a four-year
college are two entirely distinct
kinds of institutions.
“Both are necessary — t h
problem is how many of cach
are needed, and where should
they be located?”
Later, in closing his address.
Major McLendon said, ‘I must
take advantage of this occasion
New Television
Program Started
By Gay Porter
The new buildings look al
most completed when viewed from
a distance,” says Jerome O. Dar-
holt, CC instructor in engineering
who is acting as Supervisor for
Construction of the building pro
ject for the Board of Trustees.
**It looks as though comple
tion will take place about Sept
ember 1st as planned/’ said Mr.
Darholt. “They may be a littile
behind on some things, but they
are ahead on others.”
No major problems of construc-
or periods of bad weather
the people of this city and job bringing together the talent of the students.
Davidson Chorus
Presents Concert
The Davidson College Male
Chorus, under the direction of
Donald B. Plott, presented a con
cert at CC on April 24.
Composed of 30 selected voices,
the Tarheel group has become
one of the finest male choral or
ganizations in the nation. It is a
member of the Intercollegiate
Musical Council.
The Chorus has enjoyed enthus
iastic acclaim from concerts
throughout the Southeast and the
East and from a number of radio
and TV performances.
Following a concert on southern
tour, the Florida Times-Union
commented, ‘‘Seldom does an aud-
ience have the pleasure and
privilege of hearing as magnificent
a concert as the one given last
evening. The voices of the chorus
were mature and resonant, excell
ent in ensemble, with fortesi
brilliant and pianissimos solidly
fragile and vibrantly effective.”
Mr. Plott, Director of the Depart
ment of Music at Davidson College,
is a graduate of the University of
Michigan’s School of Music with
both the B.M. and M.Mus. degrees.
He was formerly Director of Vocal
Music in the Owosso, Michigan,
Citv Schools.
to pay
county a w e 11-deserved com-(
pliment. Not once, but four
times in the short space of four
or five years, you voted to tax
yourself for the construction
and operation of your two
community colleges.
“ It is appropriate to observe
that this proof of your willing
ness to pay the price of badly
needed higher educational fa
cilities guarantees this com
munity an important voice in
the future planning and devel
opment of the state s over-all
system of higher education.”
Major McLendon amplified his
remarks by suggesting, the possibil
ity that either Charlotte College
“New Horizons”, the first of a series of television
programs to be presented by Charlotte College, was seen
on W.S.O.C. television on Sunday, February 26. The pro-
have interfered with the constmc-
gram was designed to show the personality of the college, ^]on of the liberal arts building,
Mrs. Potter, Miss English, and Mr. Ballance did an excellent
and progess on that structure is
advancing, rapidly.
Construction of the science-cn-
gineering building has been hamp
ered by. a succession of troubles.
First was the rock problem. The
entire building had to be raised
three feet in order to cut down on
the amount of rock to be remoTed.
After blasting out all that was
believed necessary, the workers
started on the west wall. Later,
more rock was discovered while
footing of the east wall was
The numbers were tied togeth
er with a continuity usually lack
ing in so varied a selection of
talent, and the show ran smoothly
under the direction of its master
of ceremonies. Bob Page.
Parnassian Being
Distributed
The Spring quarter issue of the
Parnassian, the literary publica-
Bob Ferguson opened and closed tion of the CC Writer’s Club, is!
the program with piano renderings, fresh off the press,
and a bearded professor, Jim First reviews of the issue are
Cornell, gave an interesting talk favorable.
en his hobby of collecting beetles Get your copy at either of the
Another student with an unusual) student lounges or in the library,
hobby. Bob Andrews, talked about
three-line Japanese poetry.
See Building Page 3
Charlotte College students from
other lands were interviewed by
Bob Page. These included
Petronella Mayer from Germany;
could be expanded into a four- Zoutewelle from Holland; and
year school and another community jjagrnj Shalabi from Jordan,
college created “in this area” to
take its place, or an entirely new Gay Porter, a freshman student
four-year college could be created, from England, danced two num-
with Charlotte College being bers: a classical ballet variation
from “Faust”, followed by an in-
Dean’s List Announced
The director’s office has named Hunter,
the following students to the James
Dean’s list for the winter quarter:
“A” list:
Keith Morgan Arrowood, James
Fraser Cornell, Jr., Gladys Allgood
Porter, James Harvey Sexton.
maintained as a
munity college.
two-year com-
tcrpretive
“Kismet”.
Indian dance from
Johnny Wyatt and
“B” list:
Charles Stuart Adams, Fitzhugh
Patrick Jackson, John
Russell Jolly, Jr., Frank August
Kretschmer, Jimmy Wellington
Latane, William Edward Morrison,
Kenneth Wayne Mullis, William
Denver Neely, Jr., Dorce Howard
Payne, Jr., William Dickson Povey,
Marshall Hoffman Rhyne, Robert
Parks Sadler, Elizabeth Ann
‘Kismet ^ Johnny wyat ^ee Austin, Robert Boyd Barbee, gettlemyre, Paul Alexander Shinn,
Tommy Black provided a fine in Thomas Bradburn, Robert Thprr^ll T«-a
CC Students In Opera tTrpr^ation of ‘-Summenime” with WilTon Th^mT'Jr^^Robert
Two students of CharloUeCol^e £:\Ce ::;L“gTwn:
appeared m the Charlotte Opera J Torrpnre.
Association’s production of “Aida”
It was unfortunate that time
Crenshaw, John Dorsey Crisp, Jr.,
at
soc.auo.is ^ Ferguson, Jr., Dwight In order to be named to tie
Oven s aud.tor.um on Ma ch . before Tor Sm.th sang his Douglas Gordon Dean’s list, a student must take a
Tor Smith sang with the chorus, Otherwise, the program jerry Clyde Gunter, Frank full load of three subjects, 14
1 ar' HonrAri wirn Tnc t j j ^
went according to plan and was a Frvin Harkey, T.inda T,eete Harris, quarter hours of work, and most
and Gay Porter danced with the
opera ballet as a Blackamoor i
tlio slave (lance.
credit to Clnarlotte College.
Robert Lane Hartis, Mildred .^nn maintain at least a “B” averai^e.