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Golf Tournament Scheduled May 13th April Showers, May flow ers and postponed softball games and tennis matches seem to be the order of things this time of the year. But Gaston College, we will play, we will participate and we should have a good time out in the good ole sun. All rained out ball games and matches will be rescheduled to be completed by the end of May. Coming up Saturday, May 13, will be our first ever Captain’s Choice two man golf tournament. This event will be held on the Gastonia’s Municipal Golf course, with the tee off time set for 8:30 am. As of now, ten days before the event, we have had 32 golfers sign up for the tourney. This event is such that each golfer hits the ball and the ball is played from the best position of the two shots, etc. etc. etc. ..This format goes from the tee to the green. Merchandise prizes will be awarded to low team score, closest to the pin on number #7 and longest drive on number #6 (ball must be in the fairway)..Sign up now in room S-211 or come to the IM bulletin boards in the student center and upstairs in the library science building. The IM program will pay for the green fees. Also on tap is our Spring archery bow and arrow contest. Shooting from 30 and 40 yards, trophies will be awarded for highest point total for first and second places. Mixed Doubles tennis tournament is still on for the 15th of May. All those interested in playing should contact your tennis instructor or sign up with the Intramural office. If you need a partner, we will be happy to find you one to play with. Please meet on the courts on Monday night, the 15th of May at 7:30 pm ready to play. We will try to continue to play the Women’s Doubles tournament this coming Monday, May 8th. If you would like to play in this tourney, please meet on the courts at 7:30 pm. Thirty-two players are currently battling it out on the pool tables in the Myers Center to determine our Spring pool champion, start ing now, we are taking names of those of you who are interested in playing in the Ping Pong Champion ships. We will begin this event as soon as 16 individuals sign up to participate....Sign up in the Myers Center. Cinciie SIto'tv P=I2R, 910KHz=910,000 Hz, IKv-lOOOV. These are just a few of the equations the Broadcasting students are learning in their F.C.C. class. The F.C.C. (Federal Communications Commis sion) is an organized governmental body which issues licenses to stations and prospective broadcast ers. In the F.C.C. class, students are learning differ ent aspects of radio, to obtain a third class operator’s license. The third class license is required for any type of “on the air” work. To obtain this license, students must pass a 75% on tests given at scheduled times. The tests include F.C.C. rules, math and general regulations that each broad caster must know. Mr. Ralph Withers, a transmitter engi neer for WSOC, is the F.C.C. class teacher. Mr. Withers holds a first class, second class, and third class tidcet, which are the highest grade licenses available. During a recent F.C.C. class, the Broadcasting students visited WCGC— Belmont and toured the new facilities of the station. After the tour, students discussed various aspects of WCGC operations with the station staff. Volunteer Reading Program Supported By G.C. Kimbro, Marvin, Stewart And Student Mr. Jack Kimbro, Princi pal of Chapel Grove Elemen tary School, accpeted Sena tor Helen Marvin and Dr. Margaret Stewart’s offer to help as volunteers in the school’s primary reading program. Chapel Grove School like so Many others has implemented suggestion s made by Governor Hunt to use volunteers in the primary reading program. Since Gaston College has a Reading Program for those persons interested in work ing with the teachers as reading assistants. Senator Marvin and Dr. Stewart thought they should get some experience as volun teers. Several other members of the Gaston College staff have offered their services as volunteer workers. Present ly, they are planning to volunteer as teams of two or three for an hour per week. Team volunteering is a novel idea. The primary teacher is assured of a volunteer each week; whereas, the faculty member goes once every two or three weeks which would not be a hardship on anyone. Also, the students have another new class this quarter. The class. News Gathering, Writing, and Performing, is part of the Broadcasting curriculum. Mr. Brad Schulz, news editor for WSOC, is the instructor. News Gathering covers such things as developing and properly writing a news story to reading it over the radio. Legal Standards, public relations, minority pro grams, and interviewing are also taught in the News course. In Broadcast Sales class, students are preparing and performing sales presenta tions. In the presentation, one student plays the role of the client, and the other the salesperson. The salesperson tries to convince the client to advertise on radio. Some Broadcasting stu dents are producing 15- minute educational programs for WLTC radio. The F.C.C. has approved an application for the college’s PM station. The FM station will begin airing during the next school year. Business Department Sponsors Symposium At Gaston A Business Symposium was sponsored by Gaston College Department of Busi ness on April 12, 1978 in the Myers Center. The Sym posium was designed and suggested by Mr. Fenwick Huss of the Business Department. Approximately 120 high school students from the surrounding area attended the opening session begin ning at 9:00 a.m. A panel discussion was then held with members of the panel being Mr. MacBrawley of Carolina Freight Carriers Corporation, Mr. Jewell Garrison of Family Dollar Stores, and Mr. John Lawing of Homelite, Incorporated. Other guests to speak were Mr. Phil Coyle of the Chamber of Commerce and Mr. Carl Harrelson of the Employment Security Com mission. After the general session the group broke up into three smaller groups for individual discussions on Manufac turing, Retailing, and Trans portation. Each group ro tated until all three subjects were covered. At 12:00 the symposium was adjourned. The Business Department of Gaston gratefully ac knowledges the contributions of time by the panelists to this symposium. They also thank Mrs. Evelyn Wthers for her interest and as sistance in arranging the event. Symposiums and work shops are only two of the tools being used to make the public aware of the services and programs offered at Gaston College. This sym posium along with the one presented by Mr. O.J. Davis earlier in the year have been very successful and others can be looked for in the future. Brenner: Next Stop Africa Gaston College Instructor John Brenner is a man who believes in staying busy and on top of things. This year, for the sencond year in a row Brenner has won a grant which will enable him to visit another foreign country for a cultural and sociological study of the country’s people. The previous year, Bren ner won a Fulbright grant to India. This summer he will be studying the rural areas and villages of Africa on a grant from the office of education at UNCC. The grant which is valued at $55,000, will be used to send 18 individuals from North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia, to the countries of Sengal, Mali, Upper Volta, and the Ivory Coast. All of the individuals taking the study trip are from larger universities, with Brenner being the only instructor from the commun ity college level. Brenner, a master of 20th Century China, and East Asian Studies, likes to think of himself as a “Third World” person. He enjoys viewing other societies at what he calls the “grass roots” level. He is particu larly interested in studying the lower part of Asia after being given the chance to study middle Asia last summer. “The main purpose of the trip,” says Brenner, “will be to focus on a comparative analysis of modern theories between the French speaking West Afri cans and the poverty programs in Applachia. What we want to do is study the effects that building programs such as dams, would have on the sociolog ical life of the individual tribe member.” This will mean that Brenner and his fellow instructors will be mingling among the people at all times. Most of the time they will be staying in the villages along wi^h the native people. For Brenner, being able to take another trip like this, is a fulfilling thing. He feels that by doing this he can help expose other people to the world and . the people of which many Americans such as he know little about. After completing his trip to India last summer, Brenner put together a slide program which he has had the oppportunity to show to at least 750 people. He anticipates being able to do the same with his studies of Africa. Brenner feels that the grant should be used as much at home as if the study were still being conducted. He feels that by sharing what he has learned, he can readily put to use what the grant has given him an opportunity to experience. The group plans to leave for Africa on June 26 and remain for a 45 day period until August 9. After this John Brenner plans to return and finish out the summer session at Gaston College with 2 three hour classes. Sandra Jenkbn Candidates For Marshalls Selected The following students are candidates for marshalls at the Spring graduation: Shelia H. Ballard, Judy Diane Cox, Cecil C. Phillips, Kevin P. Pittman, Wallie K. Pasour, Jennie Burch Hatch, Linda Hargis Johnson, Elizabeth Ann Hord, Sandra Jean Merkel, Lynda H. Suttles, Susan B. Brymer, Cindy Lou Helton, William E. Pearson, Jr., Renee R. Carpenter, Jennings B. Hough, Millard L. McGee, Jr., Robert Forest Turner, Randol Scott Moss, Bruce Ivan Modlin, and William V. Johnson, Jr. The grades run from 4.0 to 3.913. Congratulations.
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