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THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN March, 1964 Count Basie’s Orchestra mid>performance Count Basie Performs Following the Lynchburg basketball game in the Garinger Gymnasium, Count Basie and his orchestra appeared in the Library Auditorium of Char lotte College on February 8, 1964. Entertainment was also provided by the original Win stons Trio from Albemarle. The program lasted from nine until midnight with attend ance running higher than ever before at a Charlotte College social function. An encouraging number of students seems to have come from the night school. Admission was by Student Ac tivity Card, and students that attended the preceding basket ball game were admitted first. The performance was a very informal combination concert and dance with the seats ar ranged toward the sides of the room leaving the center free for dancing later in the evening. Appearing with the sixteen piece orchestra was an enter taining vocalist who amused the audience and orchestra when he chanted that “Count Basie ga in’ to buy me a Cadillac.” After playing concert music for an hour, the orchestra and Count Basie left for intermis sion. The dramatic drummer then filled the ears of the au dience with rat-a-tat-tat and swinging rhythm for fifteen minutes. The Winstons then sang many of the favorite folk songs of the college group such as “Michael” and “Railroad Bill.” The female third of the folk group, Diane Baker, gave her rendition of “St. Louis Blues.” Miss Baker was recently selected as Miss Albemarle and is a senior in high school. The other members are Bill Dobbs of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and John Boaz from North Car- olinat State College of the Uni versity of North Carolina at Raleigh. Following the intermission the Count played dreamy slow mu sic and rockin’ fast tunes in order for the students to dance. The performance attracted a large number of faculty and administrative officials and sev eral members from All-Jazz Charlotte as guests. There were no decorations or refreshments. Promptly at midnight Count Basie signalled the end of the program by playing “One O’clock Jump”, his well-known theme song. Spring Dance Date Set The Social Committee under the direction of Martin Richek has made public the plans for the annual spring dance. This will be a semi-formal but the Social Committee states that formal gowns may be worn by the girls. The dates for the spring week end are April 17 and 18. There will be a jazz concert on Fri day night. The orchestra for the evening of the spring dance will be the Duke Ambassadors and there WILL be a vocalist. Watch for more plans in the future. Friday, March 6—Charlotte Checkers v. Greensboro Gen erals. This will be Charlotte College night at the Coliseum. A section will be roped and reserved for CO students and tickets may be bought for that night’s game at the Col lege Union Information Desk. A special discount price of $1.00 (regularly $1.50) will be available to CC students. In harmony 'with fun! Spanish Club To Hear Dr. Joseph By Susan Proctor The next meeting of the Span ish Club featuring Dr. Joseph, an obstetrician from the Pan American Union will be held on March 15. Dr. Joseph is to speak about Central America. Meetings are generally held on Sunday afternoons in the homes of the members. The scene of the last meeting was Pat Price’s home where members viewed colorful slides of Mexico and Spain. The atmosphere is informal; the programs, in keeping with the purpose are both interest ing and educational. The Club’s main objective is to help stu dents learn more about the Spanish language, culture, and customs. Instead of the one advisor that the Club has had in the past, it is now under the direc tion of an Advisory Council composed of the faculty mem bers of the Spanish Language Department. These faculty mem bers are Mrs. Hoyle, Mr. Faherty, and Mr. Vilas. Officers of El Club Espanol are: Judy Morgan, President; Tim Brit ton, Vice-President; and Pat Price, Secretary-Treasurer. The Executive Council of the Club has just completed writing a constitution which was ap proved by all the members. The new constitution received the approval of the Student Coun, cil at the meeting on February 3. USKS INC. 2908 ScKryn Av«. 'The On* Stop Shop'‘ Athletic Comm. Established President Bonnie E. E. Cone met on Monday, February 17, with an Athletic Committee. This long-awaited committee was set up at her request and is comprised of faculty, admin istration, and students. Committee members are: Dr. Cone; Mr. J. Kenneth Sanford; Coach Irving R. Edelman; Dr. Howard Harlan; Dr. Don Free man; Jan Ridenhour, and Fred Ratchford. This committee’s work will not go into effect until June 1, 1964. They plan to investigate the possibilities of inter-col- legiate and intra-mural sports. The committee plans to check on the possibilities of tennis, ?olf, track, swimming teams for our campus, and purchasing transportation for the athletic teams. The Athletic Committee will set up the Calendar for the com ing seasons of all athletic teams. The group under Dr. Cone’s leadership made out a schedule to be accomplished this year. These policies are: 1) A statement on academic- athletic policy 2) A statement of travel and accommodations, etc. 3) A policy on awards 4) A policy on banquets Spearman Speaks On Book Exchange Circle “K” is pleased to an nounce the success of the past Book Exchange. The gross sales were $1,600 for three hundred and fifty books sold for two hundred and fifty individuals. The students received $1,420 for the books. Circle “K” received approxi mately $180 for its efforts. From this gross margin $56 was de ducted and paid to students for misplaced or “lost” books. Morris Spearman, President, stated for the Club, “We wish to use this opportunity to thank those of you, Faculty, Staff, and Students, who lent your moral and physical support to our service and fund-raising proj ects. We invite your construc tive criticism, but realize that we can not possibly please everyone. Our Wednesday club meetings are open to all inter ested persons.” Atkins Memorial Attracts Gifts Three memorial funds in hon or of the late James Murrey At kins are attracting gifts from a number of individual and busi ness friends of the former Chairman of the Board of Trus tees. The largest accumulation of gifts is growing into a perman ent endowment for scholar ships, the principal to be in vested by the Charlotte College Foundation. Donations to this endowment are nearing $6,000, and there has also been a cash donation to provide a scholar ship during the first year while the endowment is earning its first return. Next in popularity have been gifts to the Library, now total ing $2,000, to be spent for suit able memorial purchases. $400 has been donated toward the “Avenue of Trees” as living me morial to the devotion of Murrey Atkins to the college. The Ave nue of Trees will line the cause way from Highway 49 into the campus. In addition to the special me morial gifts, there have been donations from about twenty donors to the regular scholar ship fund at the college, adding over $10,000 to the fund. Technical Teasers By Brian Honess Any good text^book in mathe matics is sure to contain some stimulating problems, but many more such problems, interesting and amusing, as well as instruc tive, lie a little off the beaten track. This type of problem is the subject of this column. One of the interesting things about problems of this type is the va riety of subjects they cover. We can, for example, cite a famous problem that would be of great interest to Dick Bernish, and all the other students taking Geog raphy : There is a famous theorem which appears to be simple, and seems to be true, but has never yet been proved, al though more complicated theorems of a similar type are fairly easy to prove. The theorem is that not more than four colors are necessary in order to color a map of a coun try, divided into districts, in such a way that no two con tiguous districts shall be of the same color. (By contig uous districts I mean dis tricts having a common line as part of their boundaries— districts which touch only at points are not contiguous in this sense.) Now that we have the Geog raphy students working, here is another classical problem for the Probability 221 students, that they won’t find in Goldberg’s book: This is the St. Petersburg Paradox, and goes as follows: A penny is tossed until it comes down heads. If this hap pens at the first throw, the bank pays the player $1.00 otherwise, the player throws again. If head appears at the second throw, the bank pays $2, and if at the third throw $4, and so on, doubling every time. (Thus, if the coin does not come down heads until the ninth throw, the player then receives $2”“'.) The problem is, what should the player pay the bank for the privilege of playing the game? Amaze Mr. Nixon! Solve the problem! All the accounting students have worked more problems in the past few months than they would probably care to recall, but here is an interesting appli cation they will not get from Mrs. Williamson; A radio dealer was ap proached by a customer who wanted to purchase a radio priced at $69.98. The dealer accepted a check for $80.00, giving $10.02 change in cash. Then he endorsed the check to his landlord in part payment of the rent. Of course the customer was a college stu dent, and the check was about as good as the cafeteria’s cof fee, and it bounced higher than the reciprocal of the average grade on one of Dr. Blachman’s tests. The dealer had to make the check good to his landlord, but the latter accepted a radio in part settle ment. Since this radio cost the dealer $43.75 wholesale, what was the amount of his loss? The Freshman Math students’ problem is very easily stated: If half of 5 were 3, what would a third of 10 be? English students might have less trouble with this problem, since words and letters are sub stituted for numbers: What parent of a son in col lege has never received the following telegram: SEND MORE m. 4 M»\.OTre 32 Ronnie Robinson in action MONEY but, the odd thing about it is that if you replace each letter by a digrit—the same Team Adds Players A note of thanks from the student body goes out to Bob Shaffer, Freddy Martin, and Russell Jones. These three gen tlemen gave up their free time to do a “favor” to the school basketball team by filling in for four or five boys who had to drop off the team after the change of semester. Since these boys have started to play, they have not only been fill-ins, but have done a good job in the games. Again I speak for the students when I say “Thinks a lot fellas,” and I hope you stick with us for next season. Asheville Romps Charlotte February 6—Asheville Bilt- more avenged an earlier loss this season to Charlotte College by beating them 104-52 in Ashe ville. Asheville quickly moved ahead midway in the first half and held a 43-26 half-time lead. Asheville came out strong at the start of the second half and went on to an extremely easy victory. Butch Gilbert was high scorer for the 49’ers with 17 points. Lynchburg Tops Charlotte February 8—^Charlotte lost its second conference game of the season to Lynchburg College of Lynchburg, Virginia. Charlotte put up a valiant fight all the way and were be hind by only two points with just three minutes left to go. The 49’ers had the chance to tie the game, but a missed shot gave Lynchburg the rebound and they went down and widened the margin to four points again. digit for the same letter throughout, but different dig its for different letters—you will find that the two num bers so formed are correctly totaled below the line. Lastly, here is one everyone can try. Easily stated, it asks: Is it true that every even integer is the sum of two prime numbers? (for example, 18 = 7 -I- 11 and 50 = 19 -f 31). This is known as Goldbach’s Theorem, and is true in every case that has been tested, but try and prove it! Queries, subject matter on which problems are desired, and/or types of problems desired, are invited, CC’s DIAC Tournament Record 1-2 Charlotte College’s post-exam basketball team, hoping to up set favored Lynchburg’s titl chances, was held to a 1-2 rec ord in the first annual Dixie In tercollegiate Athletic Confer ence Tournament. This gave the 49’ers of Charlotte College a 6-7 conference record for the sea son. In the first of three games, CC bombarded N. C. Methodist 91-69. The second game had Ronnie Robinson contributing 20 points, Jimmy James and Ronnie Greene with 16 each in a losing cause against St. Andrews’ Knights—100-76. Joe Buckner was high man with a 30 point effort against the 49’ers. On the final night of the tournament, Lynchburg downed CC 84-68. Ronnie Robinson, Gardner Webb transferee, scored 60 points in CC’s three games and he was named to the All-Tour nament Team. Additional Note The All-Dixie Conference team had Ronnie Robinson se lected to the first team and Ron nie Greene on the second team. With the end of the basketball season—^which was successful in that CC showed that it could hold its own within the confer ence against four-year schools— comes the hope that next yeai; the conference title will be with in our grasp and maybe—just maybe—a trophy case! Wanfed WANTED: Aggressive, gregar ious male college student to show and sell homes at a series o weekend shows, beginning soo and lasting through the sum mer. Salary, mileage, and com mission. Call 596-4524 for ap pointment. Triple A Mobile Homes, 4501 N. Tryon. COLLEGIANS GO FOR . . . Op Kitehen PIZZA 13IS W. MORTHIAD ST. PHONE 375-7449
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