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VOLUME 17. NUMBER 1
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROUNA
NEWEST BUILIXNG RISES -- President Bonnie E. Cone watches progress on the new Library Building
which IS well underway. Completion of the building is scheduled for April. 1963.
New Library To Open
When Jonquils Bloom
By Susan Procter
As foundations, pipes, and steel
matting take shape next to the
Kennedy building, the finished
product will be a new library for
Charlotte College. Scheduled for
completion in April 1963, the new
structure will permit expansion
of library and science facilities
in separate buildings.
The two storeys of the seg
ment under construction now will
afford 50,500 square feet of floor
space-- shelving fjr 119,562 vol
umes and seating for 985 students
and teachers.
A temporary entrance wUl face
the old barn. Further along the
wall of an addition planned for
the future will be set the per
manent entrance.
As one enters, he finds him
self in a spacious lobby. Turning
to the left, he may walk into
the reserve room and study area.
Or, if he prefers, he may turn
right toward the periodical room
and the steel stacks in tall rows.
At the rear of the lobby there
is a sweep of stairs leading to
the second floor, and behind this
stairway is the micro-film e-1
quipment. The first newspaper
to be available on film wiU be
the New York Times.
The second floor may be
reached by stairs rising at either
end of the building or from the
lobby. Ascending from the lobby,
one sees to the left the space
designated for mechanical equip
ment and storage.
To the right a large seaion
may be reserved for an audi
torium, unless partitioned for
temporary classrooms. To the
rear there will be conference
rooms and at least two class -
rooms.
Careful planning ha s n> t over
looked features that make a li
brary functional. Carrels for pri
vate and serious study will line
the walls of both floors. Books
Get A Pep Pm
Charlotte College has seven
new cheerleaders, who will be
selling pep pins as well as whip
ping up competitive spirit.
Head-cheerleader is Carol
Holden, with Tommy Winstead
as co-head-cheerleader. Their
efforts- will be bolstered by:
Mary Sadler, Faye Thompson,
Judy Snnith, Carol Mlnnick, and
Baiba Luke vies.
will be shelved In locations cai-
venlent to study areas. From the
basement receiving room, new
books will ride up an elevator
to the technicalprocesslngroom.
There will be comfortable loun
ges on bah floors.
The same colors of coral,
white, and blue will be retained
In the furniture. Plans are to
move the present furniture to the
first floor of the new building
and order additional furniture
for the second floor.
Money for the library was
awarded on July 5, 1962, at
a meeting of the Charlotte Com
munity CoUege Board of Trus
tees. It will cost $724,969, or
$13,06 per square foot.
Foreign Students Observe U. N. Day
With Over 25 Countries Represented
By Penny Miller
The Charlotte College chap
ter of the Collegiate Council of
the United Nations was host at
a tea on October 24 to foreign
students enrolled at colleges in
this area. The observance, mark
ing the seventeenth anniver
sary of the United Nations,
was held in the college libra r-
ry, starting at four-thirty in the
afternoon.
Of the thirty-eight foreign stu
dents attending the tea. six were
from Charlotte College, and the
remainder came from Belmont
Abbey, Queens, Davidson, and
Sacred Heart colleges. Over
twenty-five countries were re
presented by the guest students.
Over coffee as they arrived,
the students mixed easily and
readily overcame the language
barriers with hesitant English
and a lot of patience.
Larry Lynn, President of the
Charlotte College chapter of C.
C.U.N., chaired the meeting and
presented Gene Horne, who in
troduced the speaker, Charles
Robson, copy editor of the Char-
lotte Observer. ^
A former foreign student him
self during a year at the Univer
sity of Berlin, Mr. Robson talked
easily with the international
group about the purpose, pro
blems, and plans of the United
Nations. A lively discussion per
iod followed the address, and the
formal session closed with an
invitation to the guests to attend
a dinner meeting In December.
Conversation on all sides dur
ing the buffet supper revealed
tight nerves over the Cuban cri
sis. Some opinions reflected keen
feelings from native lands.
A student at Belmont Abbey,
Francis Lim, of Singapore,
greatly fears total war.
A Cuban student is afraid for
his family stiU in Cuba. He does
not expect total war, but fears
his country will be destroyed.
War wiU come in three or
four years and will grow from
the India and Red China conflict,
said Queens student, Nallne Heel-
yalka, of India.
Future Chinese newspaperman
John Ang Wang is sure the So
viets are too smart to start a
war.
You simply can’t trust the
Communists.in anything, said a
veteran of the Korean War, a
student who had lived under com
munist domination.
From Holland, Robert Gerrlt-
sen, who is majoring in English
at Davidson, felt that war'is un
likely.
October, 1962
Decision In December
College Moves Toward
Becoming UNC Campus
Although official decision is
still pending with the Board of
Trustees of the University of
North Carolina, Charlotte col
lege advanced last summer an
Important step closer to becom
ing a fourth campus of the Uni
versity.
The occasion was a formal
visit on August 21 by a Special
Committee of the Board ofTrus-
tees of the University of North
Carolina. This committee of ele
ven members had been named
by Governor Terry Sanford to
study expansion of the universi
ty system.
Thomas J. Pearsall chaired
the committee, which met with
the Board of Trustees of Char
lotte College for a morning ses
sion and luncheon. In attendance
also were sixteen University
Trustees, all residents of the
eleven-county area surrounding
Charlone College, and President
William Friday of the University
and twelve leading citizens of
Charlotte invited by the college.
At the morning session Pres
ident Bonnie E. Cone was joined
by seven members of the Board
of Trustees of Charlotte CoUege
in presenting the cause for ex
pansion of Charlotte College into
a fourth campus of the Universi
ty. Dividing into three groups,
' the speakers gave their brief
addresses in the following or
der:
History aixl Development of
Charlotte College, J. Murrey
Atkins: The Charlotte College
Area, Oliver R. Rowe; Assets
of Charlotte College, Thomas
M. Belk.
Arts and Sciences, John Paul
Lucas; Business Administration,
Addiscsi H. Reese; Engineering
Sheldon P. Smith.
The Continuing Goal, Presi
dent Cone; The University and
Its Responsibility, C. A. Mc-
Knight.
Conversations with members
of the Special Committee, both
following the addresses and dur
ing luncheon, were indicative of a
strong and favorable impression
made by Charlotte College. The
schedule of deliberations for this
committee, however, permitted
no early official pronouncement.
Two subsequent events have
added intensity to the suspense.
Ten days after the visit of the
Special Committee, an entirely
separate group. The Governor's
Comission on Education Beyond
High School, released Its official
report, which recommended that
Charlotte College become a sen
ior institution. Out of deference
to the Special Committee, the
Governor's Commission point
edly avoided any recommendation
on status as a fourth campus of
the University.
Later the Special Committee
sent representatives to Califor
nia to make a careful study and
appraisal of that state's multi
campus university system. These
representatives have returned
and reported to the Special Com
mittee, but no information will be
released until the Special Com
mittee can report to the full 100-
man Board of Trustees of the
University of North Carolina,
presumably before Christmas.
At present Charlotte College
is within one official decision
and a legislative appropriation of
becoming a fourth campus of the
University of North Carolina.
Pressures are great. Realistic
projections of population growth
Indicate that the state must pro
vide for more than 30,000 addi
tional college students by 1970,
and the arguments are strong
for offering many of them a
fiill four years plus graduate
work at Charlotte College of
the University of North Caro
lina.
First Dance
Set Nov. 10
The first dance of the year
has been scheduled by the Stu
dent Council for Saturday night,
November 10, elght-to-twelve.
The spacious dance floor of the
new Armory, near Douglas Air
port, has been reserved for the
evening, and informal dress wilf
be in order.
Denny Allen and Sandra
Hodges, co-chairman of the So
cial Committee, have engaged the
Zodiacs for four hours 6f irres
istible rhythms. Admission will
be by student card, which will
admit student and his guest.
UNITED NATIONS DAY -- Judy Morgan serves coffee to two
foreign students attending a United Nations Day meeting at Char
lotte College.