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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 3
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
DECEMBER, 1962
CHRISTMAS ROYALTY -- Queen Mary Sadler looks on approvingly as King Roily Blythe gets •
congratulatory kiss from Student Council President Beth Growne. The occasion was the 1962 Charlotte
College Christmas dance at Radio Center, Decemb^; 15.
Arboretum Will Feature
Flora Of Carolinas
By MANUEL KENNEDY
A new arboretum for Charlotte
College is taking shape on the
southern edge of the campus. In
a few years it will spread down
the slope alongside highway 49
and cover thirty-seven acres with
native trees, shrubs, and plants.
This arhoretum, whichisbeing
constructed with the supervision
and help of Dr. Herbert Hecken-
bleickner, will be a botanical
garden for growing and exhibit
ing North Carolina flora. It will
be used primarily for scientific
studies.
A dam has already been com
pleted, and it will form a lake
covering about a half acre and
storing water to keep new plants
alive. Later the lake will lie used
extensively for growing swamp
and bog plants.
The second phase, according to
Dr. Heckenbleikner, will be the
actual planting, which will begin-
it is hoped-- during the last week
in February, 1963. President
Bonnie E. Cone is expected to
plant the first specimen at a
ceremony to be held for that
purpose.
About 200 species of
trees
and many more hundreds of types
of shrubs and wild flowers will
florish in the arboretum. Native
ferns and mosses will be added
along the service roads and na
tural paths running throughout the
acreage.
Although planned primarily for
botanical study, the Charlotte
College Arboretum wiU also be
a place of beauty, especially
when azaleas, mountain laurel,
and rhodendron begin to bloom.
There wiU be literally hundreds
of other plants blooming during at
least nine months of the
year.
At Caldwell Church
CC Chorus Appears In Yule Concert
By SUSAN WEBER
The Charlotte College Chorus,
under the directionofMr. Harvey
C. Woodruff, appeared in an early
Christmas concert on Sunday,
December 9, at Caldwell
Memorial Presbyterian Church.
The program opened with a
violin and piano prelude by
Handel. After the scripture read
ing by Tom Winstead, the chorus
began its Christmas i^joicing
with the “Magnificat” and in
cluded songs of several nation
alities.
In “Ah, Dearest Jesu, Holy
Child” Mary Speight, violinist,
joined the accompanist, Addie
Williamson.
A soprano solo by LaRue Cau-
bel highlighted the performance
midway. The selections was “In
the Inn,” by Leigh McBradd.
The program was concluded
with the softly lyrical “Joseph
Dearest, Joseph Mine” and “God
Give Ye Merry Christmastide,”
a lively English tune.
The next public appearance of
the chorus will be on Sunday,
December 23. They will be tele
vised over WSOC (Channel 9) at
9:30 a.m.
Mr. Woodruff looks forward
to dividina the chorus into two
groups to accommodate rehear
sals to day and night students.
Each group would have a full
capacity for sixty students.
January will be - recruiting
month for the chorus. Newmem-
bers are invited to attend weekly
rehearsals in Room L-107 each
Friday afternoon at two-thirty.
A student concert is planned
for spring.' The chorus will pre
sent popular selections in an
open-air appearance in April or”
May.-
King And Queen
Crowned At Dance
By SUSAN PROCTOR
Midway in the Christmas dance held last Satur
day night came the important intermission. Couples
cleared the center of the dance floor as a red car
pet was rolled out for the exciting ceremony of pres
enting the King and Queen.
Suspense continued while the
royal court was presented. As
their names were called, these
couples glided forward and
formed a semi-circle: Freddie
Hosse with Mike Thomas, Pam
Birrier with Tommy Winstead,
Sandra Hodges with Jack Blythe
and Mary Fisher with John Be-
mont.
Climaxing the ceremony came
the reigning monarchs in stately
procession over the red carpet--
Roily Blythe as King and Mary
Sadler as Queen. Her Majesty
received a bouquet of gold roses.
Then King Roily and Queen Mary
received an ovation an applause
from their subjects.
There followed a brief spot-,
light dance with all couples gra- ‘
dually joining in. Then camfe a
second break for the full inter
mission and refreshments.
During the intermission, which
followed the coronation, Christ
mas cooki«s and punch were
served along with nuts and mints.
Tables around the dance floor
were decorated with Christmas-
greenery and red candles.
Transforming the large haU
into a Christmas Wonderland,
sprays of gay greenery covered
the balcony. Across this back
ground fluffy white cotton letters
spelled out the words “Merry
Christmas.” Two large white
bells hung from the ceiling.
Decorations were provided by
Radio Center, but the social
committee was busy all Saturday
afternoon conducting a practice
for the king and queen and their
court. They took time also to
add their own special touch to the
decorations.
Dancing resumed shortly to the
swaying rhythms of the Plaids
and the Dimensions and continued
to the last stroke of twelve. In
this gay settingwithlivelymusic,
it was easy to piaure swirling
snow outside, to imagine that the
beautiful girls in rustlingdresses
had come to the dance in tinkling
sleighs.
Music by the Plaids and the
Dimensions had begun at eight
o’clock, and a few swift hours
ended the second successful
dance of the year. Boys in dark
suits and girls in pretty dresses
glided to, a stop on' the last
note.
The social committee, respon
sible for planning the dance, was
headed by Sandra Hodges, and
chaperx)nes for the occasion were
Miss Fore, Mr. Pulley, Mr.
McRae, Mr. McCreary, Miss
Stevens. Mr. Gibbs. Miss
Winningham, and Mrs. Brantley.
President Cone Addresses
District Bar Association
President Bonnie E. Cone was
guest speaker last Thursday, De
cember 13, at a banquet meeting
of the 25th District Bar Associa
tion. Converging on Lenoir for
the occasion were members from
Caldwell, Burke, and Catawba
counties.
In her address Dr. Cone
stressed the annuity value to the
state and region from community
colleges. Based on insurance sta
tistics of an additional average
of $100,000 more lifetime income
for college graduates, her cal
culations rapidly showed that
CHARLOTTE COLLEGE CHORUS AT CALDWELL MEMORIAL CHURCH. In the frwit row, left to
right, are: Beth Davis, Mary Lemmond, Mary Helms, Jane Honeycutt, Judy Smith, Alice Wliitner,
Bonnie Smith, Ann Neal, Flo Morrow, SaUy Hillert. Second row, L-R: Larry Patton, Lloyd Morris,
Elaine Carriker, Eleanor Grass, Andria Prutnick, HiUary Bell, Sandra Hodges, Nancy Helms. Back
row, L-R: Mr. Harvey Woodruff, Director, EdQuein,John Livingston, Tommy Wimbish, OUn Whitner.
John Beaumont, Morris Spearman, Crede Smith, Gene Knott, Bill Newman.
10,000 graduates add a billion
dollars to normal state income.
The goal of 10,000 graduates
from community colleges seems
a modest share of the state’s
responsibility to educate an ad
ditional 31,000 college students
in 1970.
Alumni of Charlotte College
were in attendance' at the ban
quet. Among them was W. C. Pal
mer, a practicing attorney in
Lenoir and secretary of the Bar
Association.
This occasion followed by one
week Dr. Cone’s address at a
meeting of Delta Kappa Gamma
in Concord, where she spoke on
new frontiers for women in bus
iness and professions.
SC Plans
For Spring
By SUSAN WEBER
After wrapping up plans for
the Christmas dance, the Student
Council turned its attention to
the spring semester. The Social
Committee hopes to add to the
traditional St. Valentine’s Dance
and the spring dance two
additional features -- a jazz
concert and a folk quartet con
cert.
Freshman class officers and
representatives were introduced
and welcomed to the Council at
the last meeting.
To give everyone more time
during the holidays, the Student
Council changed their scheduli.
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