Charlotte (Unlbgtan
■ Official Charlotte College Student Publication
Volume 16, Number 3 CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA November 1961
Trustees Approve Building
Architect’s Sketch Of Charlotte College’s Proposed New Student Union Building
CC StucJents
Visit U. N.,
Hear Nehru
Editor's Note: George Thomas is a
CC student from India. As a member
of the CCUN, he went to the United
Nations during Prime Minister Nehru's
visit, with other representatives from
CC. Below is his interpretative report.
By GEORGE THOMAS
The proposal was presented;
the pros and cons were weighed;
the decision was made — all in
about the time it takes to write
these words. Charlotte College
students representing the Col
legiate Council for the United
Nations were to make the 700-
mile trip to New York where a
two day meeting was to be held
under the auspices of the CCUN..
Apart from the usual confer
ence groups in which the reign
ing issues of the day were dis
cussed, the main attraction was
an unprecedented privilege o f
hearing Prime Minister Jawa-
harlal Nehru of India. We un
derstood the Prime Minister had
expressed a desire to talk to “a
few” student leaders during his
short visit to this country. The
organizers had evidently ex
pected about 250 students. 1500
showed up.
Mr. Nehru’s talk, punctuated
by the whirr and clicking of
cameras galore, dealt mainly
with India’s relationship to the
U. N., her often misinterpreted
foreign policy, and her attitude
See CC STUDENTS, P. 3, Col. 1
Sleepy Students
Carry Midnight
''Education TorcK
By CHRIS COLLINS
Charlotte’s Independence Square at 3 a.m. is, during
normal times, just the intersection of Trade and Tryon
with an uninterrupted maze of street lights protruding in
four directions.
It is taken rather matter-of-
factly bv the man in blue who
stands his vigil on the corner
before Fie'd’s Jewelry store an""
stares at the hands which push
the stubborn minutes off the
face of the clock atop Liggett’s
Drug Store.
But three o’c’ock on the morn
ing of November 2 was not a
normal time for Independence
Square. The maze of light o n
North Tryon Street was suddenly
interrupted by what at first ap
peared to the man in blue to be
a flicker, but rubbing his eyes
and peering again, he saw a
torch carried by a young man
and followed by a crowd o f
other young men . . . and . . .
two young women dressed i n
toreadors.
The torch and the young
people comprised ‘‘The Torch
for Education Marathon”
which simply means that they
were promoting the education
issues on the state bond up for
vote on November 7.
See EDUCATION, Pg. 3, Col. J
BOB OWENS
Charlotte College Loses
Two ‘Devoted Friends’
Two men who have been in
strumental in the construction
of Charlotte College have died
recently.
Richard P. (Dick) Leaman,
architect in charge of design
and develooment of Charlotte
College, died Sept. 14 in a
Charlotte hospital following an
illness of one week.
Gerald 0. T, Erdahl, organ
izer and director of N. C. State
College’s College Union and ad
visor to the architect plan
ning the Charlotte College
Student Union building, died
Nov. 6 in Raleigh.
“The death of Mr. Leaman,”
said Dr. Cone, “is a great
loss to our college.”
Mr. Leaman was supervis
or of the design and develop
ment department of A. G.
Odell Jr. and Associates.
Mr. Erdahl had been em
ployed in the planning period
or the college Student Union
building because “he knew
vhat facilities students need
for meeting rooms and recre
ation,” said Dr. Cone.
“He was a man with the
finest qualifications for the
job, and the best we could
find,” said the President.
Mr. Erdahl and Mr. Lea-
■nan had the greatest confi
dence in each other’s ability
and neither felt the job could
be done well witliout the
other’s participation.
jannsgwmg
I need not lift mine eyes
unto the hills
To breathe a prayer;
My heart finds peace in
simple lowly things—
A quite plain where
a night bird sings.
I need not lift mine eyes
unto the hills
To seek my strength.
For level fields of
fragrant, up turned sod
The eternal mystery of
sprouting seed
Proclaim the presence of
Almighty God.
I shall not give my thanks
this day alone,
But every day
Throughout the changing
seasons of the year
There is so much of good
and friendship fine
I make a silent prayer
for Him to hear
—Naomi Sell Tallej
TV Show
To Feature
CC Panel
The Charlotte College CCUN
will be featured on television sta
tion WSOC on Sunday, Nov. 26 at
9:30 a.m. The program will be
one of the regular Charlotte Col
iege programs given each month
The program will be a pane'
discussion of CCUN activities to
show “What Is the CCUN anc
What it Does and How.”
Professor W. H. B. Corkey, co
advisor to the CCUN, will mod
erate the panel. Panel memberf
OTll be John Cochran, president;
Larry Deuhurst; Patronella May
er Coulter, secretary; Robert
'\ndrews; and Reggie York.
“New Horizons” is a series of
TV programs, presented b j
Charlotte College under the di-
ection of Mrs. Ramona Potter
on WSOC TV every fourth Sun-
Jay at 9:?0 a.m.
“Mathematics has a beauty of
structure equal to that found in
music and painting,” C 1 o y d
Goodrum, head of the Charlotte
College Math department told hi
audience on the first "New Hor
izons” program, Sunday, Oct. 22.
They attempted to explain
"what is erroneously called
New Mathematics’.”
“We are trying to make of
Math a related program,” said
Mr. Goodrum, “by tying togeth
er in a logical way all the prin
ciples of mathematics.”
Expansion
Program
Continues
The defeat of the state bond
issue on Nov. 7 has not halted
the Phase Two building pro
gram at Charlotte and Mecklen
burg (Carver) College.
At a meeting Wednesday, Nov.
16, the board of trustees en
dorsed the Phase Two plans
which include three buildings for
the two Charlotte community
’olleges. The money for these
hree buildings was already made
available by the citizens of
Mecklenburg County in two lo-
'■al bond votes and was matched
-■nliflr for dollar from state
funds.
Phase Two building pro
gram means for Charlotte Col
lege a library building and a
student services building.
The failure of the state bond
means that funds for the con
struction of a fine arts building
at Charlotte College are not
ivailable at present. But there
s a possibility that the funds
nay be available in the foresee-
ible future.
At the board meeting Wednes-
lay, the trustees passed a reso-
ution authorizing the adminis-
-ation to borrov.' $200,000 to use
oward the constrrction of the
student union building.
J. Murrey Atkins, chairman
of the board, suggested that
the trustees might “address a
letter to the governor or see
him in p«rson to see if there
are available funds from
which the one and one-haU
million dollars asked ior com
munity colleges by the bond
issue could be allocated to the
existing community colleges.”
Oliver Rowe, chairman of the
board’s finance committee, said
hat he thought the trustees
TOuld be listened to in Raleigh
oecause, “we already have
matching funds.”
Miss Bonnie Cone, president
of Charlotte College, said that
See EXPANSION, Pg. 3, Col. 5
Rep. Kennedy, Dr. Cone
Speak At Bond Rally
By DENNIS WHITAKER
The entire student body o'
Charlotte College gathered in
front of the Science-Engineeri’-'
Building October 30 for a kickoff
rally to work for the state bond
issue to raise one and one-half
million dollars for community
colleges.
There were two rallies, one at
10:00 a.m. and another at 6:10
p.m.
State representative John P.
Kennedy of Charlotte was the
principal speaker at both ral
lies. He spoke on the impor
tance of the bond to North
Carolina for improvements
other than the need for money
by state supported and com
munity colleges.
President Bonnie Cone of Char-
otte College explained how the
ond issue would help Charlotte
Community Colleges.
Chris Collins, chairman of the
"ally committee, presided. He
ntroduced Beth Groom, general
?hairman of the student bond
committee, who introduced other
chairmen. Each chairman ex-
ilained the job of his particular
committee and asked for more
/olunteer workers.
John Duckworth was technical
lirector for the rally. He helped
o put up the crepe paper
streamers the night before v/hich
the wind had blown away by
Tiorning. But the sign across the
ront of the Science building say
ing “Vote yes for the bond”
stayed up until taken down.