Pape 2 THE TAR HEEL Thursday, August 18, 1966 Editor New Alumni Vermont C. Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, has been elected president of t h e University General Alumni As sociation in mail balloting among association members. Royster was unopposed in the balloting among dues pay ing memb:rs of the associa tion. He succeeds Dr. Edward Hudgins, a Greensboro attor ney, who will remain on the association's executive com mittee for a year as past president. Royster, a 1935 graduate of the University, joined the Wall Street Journal as a reporter shortly after his graduation. He became its editor in 1958. He was awarded the Pulitzer Price for editorials in 1953, and he has just concluded a year as president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. EASTGATE HARDWARE Eastgate Shopping Center T.V. RENTAL SERVICE Special Summer Rate 6 Weeks for $20.00 ALSO AT EASTGATE HARDWARE . , -v. w . . : . Eastgate CALL Also in thj balloting, M. C. Benton Jr., mayor of Winston- - V H V vv v 5 1 1 VERMONT ROYSTER Basketball And Golf Shoes By CONVERSE Hardware 942 - 2920 Steele Bldg. Campus Head! Salem, was chosen president elect and first vice-president, and W. G. Pritchard Jr. of Atlanta, Ga., was named sec ond vice-president. Benton defeated John T. Church of Henderson. He is vice-president and treasurer of McLean Trucking Company. During the war, Benton flew B-17 bombers in the European Theatre. He graduated in 1938. Two new directors were elected: Dr. J. Dewey Dorsett Jr., a Charlotte physician, and E.J. Evans, a Durham busi nessman. Hubert H. Rand of Durham was chosen alumni representa tive on the University's ath letic council for a three - year term, winning over Hubert J. Philpott of Lexington. Coed Dorm Schedule Released The schedule for the opening of women's dormitories for fall semester at the University here was announced last week by Dean of Women Kathe rine Kennedy Carmichael. Graduate and foreign wom en students and medical tech nology students will be hous ed in Smith Dormitory begin ning at noon on Thursday, Aug. 25, and continuing through 10 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. Mrs. Louise Parker will be in charge of Smith Dormitory stu dents. For the fall semester, all un dergraduate women's dormito ries will open at noon Friday, Sept. 9, for students who are to be tested. All other new undergraduate women s t u -dents are expected to arrive at noon Saturday, Sept. 10. For those attending fresh man camp, women's undergra duate dormitories will open for two hours, from 10 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, Sept. 7, so freshman women students may place their possessions in their buildings. Kenan Graduate Dormitory will open at noon Sunday, Sept. 11. UNC Ranks Tenth In State Support The Consolidated University ranks 10 in the nation in the amount of state tax support received for annual operating expenses. This ranking is on a list com piled by Dr. M. M. Chambers of Indiana University. Cham bers is a noted educator and publisher of a monthly news letter on state legislation af fecting higher education. "It seems probable," Cham bers said, "that the top 20 state universities in terms of annual operating income would also be the top 20 in the sub jective opinion of academici ans." Chambers figures show that the Consolidated University received $32,238,000 in State Appropriations for the fiscal year 1963-64. In 1965-66, the ap propriation increased to $43, 247,000. UNC ranked No. 10 both years. The University of Califor nia ranked first on the list, receiving $155,384,000 for 1965 66. Other state universities ahead of UNC were the State University of New York, $149,- UNC Graduate Gets Rockefeller Grant A former graduate student at the University has been awarded a Rockefeller Foun dation Grant to teach econom ics and complete research for his doctoral dissertation in East Africa. Alan A. Waters, who re ceived a B. S. degree in fi nance in 1963, and an M. A. in economics in 1964 at the Uni versity here, will leave the first of September for Nairobi, Kenya. He will teach a course in economics at University College and study the econom ics of coffee-growing as a bas is for his dissertation. Mr. Waters, an Irish immi grant who was naturalized as an American citizen only last week, is now a graduate stu dent at Rice Univ. in Hous ton, Texas. He is working for a Ph. D. in economics under a William Marsh Rice Fellowship. 946,000 for 1965-66; Illinois, $98,182,000; Texas, $55,534,000; Wisconsin, $55,041,000; Michi gan, $50,355,00; Minnesota, $49,251,000; Michigan State, $46,254,000; and Ohio State, $44,008,000. Planetarium Attendance Record Set Morehead Planetarium Di rector, A. F. Jenzano, an nounced that the attendance figures for the month of July at the famed Chapel Hill insti tution broke all records and exceeded even the most opti mistic expectations. Said Mr. Jenzano, "Normally, we count on 6-7000 people a month to attend the Planetarium pro gram during the summer. This July, over 9,500 people came to the Planetarium to see the presentations." When asked how he account ed for the surge in attendance, Mr. Jenzano replied, "Our pro gram this summer, 'Moon City', is quite timely and this surge seems to be born out of its popularity. Also we are be ginning to feel the impact of Federally sponsored programs such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Project Heardstart, both of which make funds available to schools for educational field trips." . The Planetarium is self supporting in its day-to-day op eration with funds derived from receipts. "We try to keep . our admission rates as low as possible without denying use os this facility to anyone, and still provide sufficient money for economic stability. Major improvements have, from time to time, been funded by The Morehead Foundation. The lat est Foundation gift provides for a completely new model Zeiss Planetarium Instrument and auxiliary devices costing nearly a quarter of a million dollars to be manufactured and installed in two years," Mr. Jenzano said.

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