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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 5
CHARLOTTE. NOimi CABDUNA
FEBRUARY, 1963
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A WOODED KNOLL in the new arboretum, where plants will be trans-set from the bog'scene in the
Southeastern Flower Show. Clustering around the outcroppings of rock will be hepatica, bellewort, and
false Solomon’s seal. Over the ridge and down the hollow will be the pond filled with bog plants.
Garden Show Previews
College Arboretum
“Prelude to Spring” is the
theme of the Southeastern Flower
and Garden Show, at Charlotte
Merchandise Mart, February
15-19. Dominating a prominent
corner of the show will be a wild
garden, designed by Dr. Herbert
Hechenbleikner.
The main theme of this garden
is a bog scene, featuring five
native insectivorous plants --
Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, but-
terwort, bladderwort, and sun
dew. Most of the wild plants and
flowers making up the bog scene
will be rooted, and after the
show they will be set in the new
arboretum at Charlotte College.
All week Dr. Hechenbleikner
and two student assistants,Ralph
Strange and Sam Lindeman, have
been putting their spare hours
into constructing the garden
scene in a corner area twenty
feet square on the first floor of
the Merchandise Mart.
For a background pine slabs
draped with Spanish moss crea
ted the effect of a secluded spot.
Borders were heightened as long
leaf pine, white cedar, and four
native species of holly were set
in.
The ground sloped gently
toward a marshy pond, which
began with a tank of galvanized
Thank You
Pays $1,000
Nobody is sure what picture is
supposed to be worth a thousand
words, but here is proof that a
thank-you letter from a Charlotte
College student was worth a gift
of $1,000 to the Scholarship Fund.
When the Corporate Insurers
Service, Incorporated, repeated
its gift to the college this year,
Mr. W. C. Wolf, Jr., president
of the corporation, mailed a check
for $1,000 to President BonnieE.
Cone. At the end of his letter Mr.
Wolf commented as follows:
“You may be interested to know
that I leceived a rewarding let
ter from one of the students
participating in last year’s scho-
' larships. In fact, the nature of
the letter was such that it stimu
lated us to provide the monies
again this year for the same
purpose.”
sheet metal, measuring six
inches deep and curving in an
irregular shape for eight or ten-
feet in length. Before show time,
however, white sand and dead
leaves covered the bottom of the
“pond.” and wild ferns leaned
over the edges into the black
“swamp water.” At another
spot a Cyprus knee thrust up,
and duckweed floated in patches
on the surface.
Near the pond a bare patch
of white sand and a rotting pine
stump add their illusion of a na
tural scene. Yellow jessamine in
bloom lends color to another spot.
Visitors in the crowd discover
mistletoe growing on a branch,
but few can identify the living
peat moss. Many other varieties
of native plants fill in nooks
and crannies of the Charlotte
College wild garden exhibit.
Faculty Wives
Club Formed
A constant increase of faculty
members is one of the results
of the rapid growth of Charlotte
College. Because faculty resi
dences are scattered over Char
lotte and Davidson, the faculty
wives decided they needed a focal
point where they might learn,
more about the school and each
other. So they have formed a
Faculty Wives Club.
The major purpose of t'he group
will be to welcome newcomers
to the college and to Charlotte
and to make them feel completely
at-home. These women also hope
to become better acquainted with
each other and to learn about
each other’s families, hobbies,
il^terests , and eccentricities.
Wishing to have a friendly,
relaxed, and informal atmos
phere, the group decided against
having any conventional pro
grammed organization or any
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Chorus
Spring
Planning
Concert
The Charlotte College Chorus
is rehearsing new music for an
outdoor concert for the student
body in April, also for a tele
vision show in May.
During the first semester the
chorus concentrated on sacred
music, for most of its appearan
ces were in churches. For the
spring show, however, Mr. Har
vey Woodruff, Director, stated
that a bright sprinking of light
music has been added.
Weekly rehearsals are held in
two sections to accommodate the
schedules of working members.
The first section meets in L-107,
Fridays, 2:30-4:00 P.M., and the
other group rehearses at
Caldwell Memorial Presbyterian
Church from 2:00 to 3:30 on
Sunday afternoons
An accompanist is needed for
the Friday afternoon rehearsals.
Mr. Woodruff wiU welcome any
musician who can assist at the
piano.
Mr. Woodruff will welcome
also any more students who like
music and want to sing with the
chorus. Given new members with
cheerful attitudes and the desire
to sing, Mr. Woodruff assumes
responsibility to teach them the
MR. WOOE«UFF
music.
Final appearance of the chorus
will be its usual prominent role
in the graduation ceremonies in
June.
Contest Open
To Students
The Writers Club'of Hickory,
North Carolina, has extended its
normal boundaries to open its
spring contest to students at
Charlotte College.
Cash prizes of $10 and $5 go
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Senior College Grows
Task Force Studies
Future Fourth Campus
The continuing possibility of a
fourth university campus at Char
lotte was highlighted by President
Bonnie E. Cone in an address
last week before the Charlotte
Woman’s Club.
“We are encouraged by the re
commendations of the Pearsall
report,” Dr. Cone stated, “and by
the fact that the Board of Trus
tees of the University accepted
it unanimously and agreed, as
soon as legislative authorization
is provided, to undertake a com
prehensive study of the need for
the establishment of new units of
the University. So the door is
not closed on our own Board’s
request for a fourth campus of
the University.”
The Board of Trustees of the
University, she explained, is
seeking new legislation in the
General Assembly, granting the
Board sole authority todetermine
the locations of future campuses
of the University. With the pas
sage of such legislation, a special
task force will be sent to inspea
this area and see if Charlotte
really needs and can support uni
versity and graduate facilities.
After a task force recommends
expansion of university facilities
and services into an area, it
becomes “the legal respon
sibility of the Board to set them
up.” Some delay will be
unavoidable, but positive action
is expected.
While this action is pending,
Charlotte CoUege will move for
ward on its own, as an indepen
dent state- supported college,
through a two-stage development
into a senior college. The junior
year will be added to the curri
culum this fall, and the senior,
year will be added in the fall of
1964.
The General Assembly is ex
pected to give final approval to
this expansion program and pro
vide adequate appropriations.
Charlotte College is requesting
3 1/2 -million dollars in capital
funds and 2-million dollars for
operating expenses.
The expanded operating budget
will finance additional courses
in liberal arts, sciences, bus
iness administration, engineer
ing, and teacher education. The
curriculum expansion is almost
complete, and adnainistrative ef
forts are being direaed toward
employing additional faculty.
For the larger faculty and stu
dent body, more classroom and
laboratory space will be needed.
So the third phase of the building
program will include two new
classroom buildings and two new
laboratory buildings.
The present Liberal Arts
Building will have a twin struc
ture to Ihe south, and there will be
another classroom building to the
east, forming the apex of a trian
gle with the other two, but
standing just inside the present
driveway.
The two new laboratory build
ings will be located to the north
of the Kennedy Building, form
ing the base of another triangle.
Across the campus and on the
other side of the barn will be the
site of the new administration
building. Plans are not yet de
finite about including this struc
ture in the same building phase
with the other four buildings.
Valentine
Dance Is Set
The first dance of the spring
semester, Valentine’s Dance, has
been scheduled by the Student
Council for Saturday night, Feb
ruary 23.
The dance floor of the Queen
Charlotte Hotel has been re
served from eight-to-twelve, and
the occasion will be semi-formal.
The highlight of the dance will
be the appearance of the Valen
tine’ s Court, headed by the Sweet
heart of the dance.
The Social Committee has en
gaged Bill Mclntire’s Band for
hours of swinging tempo. Free
tickets to the dance will be
made available by the office at
a time to be announced.
Jefferson Standard
Donates Telescope
Through the generosity of the
Jefferson Standard Foundation,
Charlotte College wiU soon have
its own telescope mounted and
pointed to the stars. The gift was
communicated last week to Pres
ident Bonnie E. Cone in a letter
from Mr. Charles N. Crutch
field, Executive Vice-Presi
dent of the Jefferson Standard
Broadcasting Company.
The college already has a per
fect location for its new tele
scope -- atop the old silo that
came with the farm purchased for
the campus. The silo measures
about eighteen feet in diameter
and rises to a height of approxi
mately forty feet. Being situated
on the campus knoll, it will have
a clear sweep of the sky.
There is a steel ladder an
chored in the outside wall of
the silo, and the construction of
a railed platform on top will
complete the basic observation
point. A fixed pedestal for mount
ing the instrument would be in
cluded, but the telescope itself
will be carried back and forth.
Dr. Herbert Hechenbleikner
recommends a four-inch tele
scope for the purpose of the col
lege, and he indicated that a
simple platform on top of the
silo would accommodate eight
or ten observers comfortably
and still give free sweep for the
telescope. An open platform is
more desirable than an aluminum
dome, which can get very hot and
stuffy unless air conditioned.
An interior staircase of spiral
steel construction would be a
desirable convenience for the
sidereal silo, and Dr. Hechen
bleikner believes one can be
purchased reasonably from some
old cotton mill. Such staircase
are common features in multi
story mills, particularly where
they rise near the boiler rooms.
Any information leading to a
cotton miU that can spare a spiral
steel staircase will be indeed
appreciated by the college.