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VOLUME 17. NUMBER 2
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROUNA
NOVEMBER, 1962
Operation Muscle
Starts Ampitheater
By Bill Newman
Within the next few weeks, Charlotte College will
rinif with the sound of axes as “Operation Muscle”
moves into the tall timbers midway between the pre
sent campus and Highway 49.
OPERATION MUSCLE — With Dr. Heckenbleikner unfurlii^ a blueprint. Circle K members tackle
underbrush to get the “feel” of their project. Real work starts in a few weeks.
Harvest ‘Moon’ Lights
Yearns First Dance
By Susan Proctor
The firsi dance of the school
year got underway about 8:00
p.m., November 10th, at the Na
tional Guard Armory. The set
ting featured fall and harvest.
Appropriate decorations of corn
stalks, gaily colored autumn
leaves, and pumpkins were used.
On one side of the large room
were tables, each having as its
centerpiece a small pump Wn nes
tled in a spray of a fall leaves.
Candles on either end of the
tables completed the festive at
mosphere.
At the front of the room, a
rustic fence enclosed a straw
and leaf covered floor to make a
field setting for cornstalks, small
pumpkins, and larger-than-life
scarecrow with a tremendous
pumpkin head. Overhead twirled
laces of crepe paper created a
blue sky, and a white carnation
harvest moon reigned over the
dance.
Music ranging from the twist
tempo, rock and roll, to the slow
and dreamy, was provided by
Maurice Williams and the Zodi
acs. Two hours of dancing is
tiresome fun; so a refreshment
break was taken at ten o’clock
Cookies, nuts, and punch were
served from a table decorated
with a harvest spray of pine
cones and autumn leaves. Danc
ing was resumed shortly and
continued right up to the be
witching hour 5f midijight.
The huge success of Char
lotte College’s first dance can
be largely attributed to the stu
dents. But special recognition
should go to Mr. Pulley, Mr.
Siegel, Mr. and Mrs. Stovall,
Miss Stephens, Miss English,
and Dr. Cone, who served as
chaperones, and the dance com
mittee, who were responsible for
the planning and decorations.
Open By Next Summer
College Union Will
Serve Many Purposes
By Mrs. Ethel Phipps
Slightly west and south of the new library build
ing, a second building is rapidly nearing completion.
Thi3 second building is to be the student services build
ing, the College Union. It faces South and when com
pleted, it will be a dignified white structure covered
wit i panels of pre-cast stone.
Coeds Rise
At College
By Penny Miller
Charlotte College has gone
long hair-- not in a stuffy way,
but with more girls enrolled.
Among the 49’ers this year,
the boy-girl ratio has smoothed
out to little more than 3.1.
Enrollment figures show 915
boys and 275 girls. In earlier
years the ratio was about 5.1.
In 1960 there were 575 boys
and 122 girls, and a year later
there were 762 boys and 162
girls.
Students are coming from
greater distances, too, although
there is a drc^ in foreign stu
dents this year. One Cuban stu
dent is in attendance, and one
student from Thailand.
By states and counties the
college has broadened its scope.
Eleven other states are re
presented in the student body--
Alabama, Florida, Maryland,
Massachusetts, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South
Carolina, Tennessee, and West
Virginia. South Carolina leads
with ten of her sons and daugh
ters crossing the border.
Twenty-one counties in North
Carolina are sending students to
Charlotte College. After Meck
lenburg, Cabarrus leads the list
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Within the next few weeks,
C. C. will ring with the sound
of axes as “Operation Muscle”
moves into the tall timbers
midway between the present cam
pus and Highway 49.
The Circle K Club, with Dr.
Herbert Heckenbleickner as ad
visor, will clear trees and brush
from the site of the College’s
projected amphitheater, sche
duled for completion in about
four or five years. Recently
completing its official organiza
tion as a club. Circle K has
undertaken this early project to
benefit the student body of fu
ture years.
Plans for the new amphithea
ter will include a spring-fed lake
of three-to-five acres in the
hollow between the campus and
the highway. The entire area
wiU be bounded by a circular
driveway.
Ample space between drive
way and lake will provide grassed
terraces to seat4,000 spectators,
about the same capacity as Free
dom Park.
A penisula will thrust out into
the lake to provide an attrac
tive stage for performances. With
shrubs screening the entrance,
this stage will present an Island
view to the audience. The stage
will be wired for light and sound.
After clearing out trees and
underbrush, the Circle K Club
will dig drainage ditches and
proceed with landscaping and
grassing t-he area. The labor
on this first phase of Opera
tion Muscle should be comple
ted in about three months or
less.
It is reported that Dr. Heck
is thinking about swans for the
lake.
Jaycees
Boost CC
By Susan Proctor
Jaycees from eleven North
Carolina counties were welcomed
to Charlotte College by Dr.
Bonnie Cone on Thursday, Nove
mber 15. The eleven counties re
presented were: Anson, Ca
barrus, Catawba, Cleveland,
Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mec
klenburg, Rowan, Stanley, and
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Student Council
Regulates Posters
By Susan Weber
Manuel Kennedy, chairman of
publicity for the Student Council,
has announced new publicity
regulations concerning bulletin
boards.
(1) All announcements, regard
less of origin, must be submit
ted to the Publicity Committee
before they are posted on the
bulletin boards.
(2) The size of club and or
ganization posters is limited to
14” X 22”.
(3) The size of private an
nouncements is limited to 3”
X 5” index cards. These must
be typed or lettered in ink. Cards
may be obtained from the re
ceptionist.
The Council has transacted
various other business at its
meetings. The Social Committee
is busily planning the Christmas
Dance for December 15. Students
will vote for a King and Queen.
The court of appeals for the
Traffic Committee will be set
up soon. Clinton Canaday asked
for suggestions of students to
patrol the parking lot after 6’
p.m.
A bid to print a thousand
copies of the student directory,
was approved by the Council.
Mr. William F. Hutchison was
named floor manager for school
dances. He will be in charge of
tickets, checking the exits, and
other related operations.
The first floor wUl consist
of a large kitchen, a dining
room, a game room and assor
ted rest rooms. Meals in the
dining room will be served on
the ‘scramble” system. Gar-
ringer High graduates will un
derstand the term “scramble,”
as this system is used at Gar-
ringer. For the rest of us, how
ever, the “scramble” systjm
simply means that the foods wiU
be grouped according to type to
eliminate waiting in line by hun
gry students.
In addition to its use as a
cafeteria, the dining room will
also be available for dances and
other social functions.
On the second floor of the Col
lege Union will be the book store
and lounging areas for the use
of the students. The adminis
trative offices of the College
Union will be located here, too.
Perhaps the most important
feature of the second floor will
be the conference rooms. These
rooms are intended as meeting
places for the student organi
zations.
In the hall adjacent to the
meeting rooms, closets will be
available for the use of the
various orgatiizations. In the
closets, cabinets and sotrage
space for the materials belonging
to the several clubs will be pro
vided. This arrangement will
permit the use of one meeting
room by any or aU of the clubs,
since club supplies need not be
stored in the rooms themselves.
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