A-B Hosts Regional W!vlu Meeting
By John Moore
Ashevllle-Biltmore College will
help host the Region IV meeting
of the World Meteorological Or
ganization on Oct. 4-13.
Some 50 delegates fram North
and Central America will meet
here to discuss problems com
mon to their coimtries, includ
ing international communication,
calibration of barometers, and
observational techniques. Among
the countries to be represented
will be Canada, the United States,
Costa Rica, Cub ""d Panama.
It is also possible that Russia
or other member nations might
send observers to the meeting.
In addition to the delegates
and observers from the member
countries, Secretary - General
D. A. Davies of the World Me
teorological Organization, Dr.
Elliott Coen, President of Re
gion IV, and Dr. Robert M. White,
Administrator of Advironmental
Science Services Administration,
will be present.
North and Central America
comprise Region IV of the World
Meteorological Organization, a
specialized agency of the United
Nations. The WMO was estab
lished by the U. N. in 1951
with headquarters in Geneva,
Switzerland.
The W'MO promotes interna
tional cooperation among the
world’s meteorological stations,
sets standards for meteorologi
cal observation, and extends
weather data to aviation, ship
ping, agriculture, and other
fields dependent upon weather
information. In order to fulfill
its aims and purposes, the WMO
divided the world into eight re
gions, each of which schedules
a regional meeting once every
four years.
Region IV, the region to which
the United States belongs, was
scheduled to meet In 1966. Dr.
Robert White, chief U. S, me
teorologist and head of the U. S.
delegation, offered to have the
United States host the confer
ence. This offer was accepted,
and Dr. White accepted Ashe-
ville-Blltmore College’s offer to
provide the site for the meeting.
There were a number of reasons
for Dr. White’s choice of A-B
College. There was an agency,
the National Weather Records
center, in Asheville that could
handle the tremendous volume
of paper work (In excess of
1/2 million sheets of paper) and
attend to the details that such
an International meeting creates.
William H. Haggard, Acting Di
rector of the Records Centei
See WMO, page 8
The Ridgerunner
The Students^ Right to Information and Expression
Vol. 2 No. 2
Asheville-Biltmore College, Asheville, North Carolina
September 23, 1966
Jones, Harbin, Clarke Elected
Class Presidents For 1966-67
BOB JONES
SR PRESIDENT
SANDY LEDBETTER
SR VICE-PRESIDENT
FAYE PATTON
SR SECRETARY-TREASURER
TOM HARBIN
JR PRESIDENT
Class officers for the year
were elected on Tuesday. Sent.
12. Not counting part-time, spe
cial, and unclassified students,
41% of the seniors, 44% of the
juniors, and 37% of the fresh
men voted. The new officers
are:
Senior class president - Bob
Jones
vice president-Sandy Ledbetter
secretary - treasurer - Faye
Patton
Junior class president - Tom
Harbin
vice president - Sandy Sluder
secretary - treasurer - Jean
Llplnsky
Freshman class presldent-Bob
Clarke
vice president - Rick Morrow
secretary - treasurer - Donna
Goodwin
After the elections, “Ridge
runner” staff members Nancy
Bowlin and Gloria Middleton
asked each officer five questions.
The questions are: 1, What do
you plan for a senior (junior
or freshman) project?
2. What is your stand on fra
ternities and sororities?
3. What will you do to stimu
late student Interest In the stu
dents’ government?
4. What is your stand on the
new grading' system?
5. What Improvements In
campus life can you sug^st?
A summary of the interviewi
follows.
The first question was con
cerning a class project. The
main idea expressed by the new
ly-elected officers was to foster
school spirit and make everyone
feel a part of the school. To
this Bob Clarke added that as a
freshmen class project, they
hoped to donate something to the
school.
In the elections this year,
there was only one candidate
running for each senior office.
This was also true for the ju
nior vice-president and secre
tary - treasurer, and the fresh-
iman secretary - treasurer. The
second question then was what
is their means of stimulating
student interest in our student
government.
Bob Jones seemed to feel that
the problem of interest in stu
dent government is just a symp
tom of a larger disinterest in
the school and its activities.
This Is due, he stated, to the
fact that A. B. closes up like
a vice at 4:30 p. m. and that
they roll up the sidewalks at
5:30. However, Bob believes
that the dormitories will help
solve this problem next year.
This year Bob Jones plans to
stimulate student interest by try
ing to unite all the classes as
a whole; therefore, making the
classes feel as one.
Sandra Sluder and Tom Har
bin felt getting more people in
terested in school activities and
attending S. G. A, meetings would
make them feel closer to the
school.
The freshman president, Bob
Clarke, stated that to stimulate
more participation in student
government, one must take the
leadership from a select few
and put it in the reach of ev
eryone.
Next they were asked about
fraternities and sororities and
their answers seemed to center
around one main thought -- that
if the fraternities and sororities
upheld their standards and met
their social expectations, they
were good because they boosted
school spirit and gave a feeling
of “belonging” to the students.
When asked about the new
grading system H, G, P, F,
most of them thought the new
system was better than the old
See President, page 8
SGA To Hold Dance
Attention to all students! Your
S. G. A. will be giving a dance
this October 1, 1966, at the
George Vanderbilt from 9 p. m.
to 1 a. m. The band will be
The Villagers. This dance will
be open only to students who
have activity cards. So please
get your Student Activity Cards
from the Receptionist’s Office.
SANDRA SLUDER
JR VICE-PRESIDENT
JEAN LIPINSKY
JR SECRETARY-TREASURER
BOB CLARKE
FR PRESroENT
RICK MORROW
FR VICE-PRESIDENT
DONNA GOODWIN
FR SECRETARY-TREASURER