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Architect’s Drawing of New NCC Student Union Building
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Volume XII—Number 1
Durham, North Carolina
Monday, July 11, 1966
Begun In 1963,
ISCC Building Projects
Pass $2 Million Mark
North Carolina College has
completed nearly three-fourths
of a number of construction and
improvement projects launched
in June, 1963, at a cost of $4,-
068,500 and has received ap
proval for the construction of a
chemistry building and an addi
tional 400-person high-rise dor
mitory.
Completed or nearly complet
ed in the massive undertaking
begun in 1963 are three build
ings totaling $2,655,000. They
are a 300-bed addition to Chid-
ley Hall for men, $825,000; a
high-rise nine-story residence
for 400 women, $1,200,000; and
a cafeteria, $630,000. The men’s
residence was occupied in Sep
tember, the women’s residence
is completed but not yet occu
pied, and the cafeteria is near
ing completion.
Other projects completed un
der the program are the equip
ping of a closed-circuit television
system, $75,000; equipping a
language laboratory, $49,000;
air-conditioning the college’s li
brary, $100,000; construction of
a storage facility, $25,000; pro
viding culvert and fill from Du
pree to Lawson streets, $35,000;
enlarging coal bins, $14,000; im
proving sidewalks, $9,000; im
proving the new women’s dor
mitory, $15,000; and repairing
Old Senior Dormitory, $8,500.
Three major projects ap
proved in 1963—construction of
a student union building, an ad
dition to the science building,
and renovation of the adminis
tration building—remain to be
completed. The institution, how
ever, has replanned two of the
projects and has received ap
proval for new construction in
these respects: the student un
ion building, originally to cost
$720,000, will now cost $1,020,-
000. Instead of adding to the
science building at a cost of
$288,000, the college will con
struct a chemistry building cost
ing $765,000. Funds earmarked
for renovation of the adminis
tration building remain at
$160,000, as approved in 1963.
Approval of construction of
the new buildings—the chemis
try building and an additional
women’s residence—^was an
nounced recently by William
Jones, chairman of the college’s
Interim Committee. The dormi
tory, a high-rise building iden
tical to the new one now com
pleted, will cost $1,200,000.
Two of the buildings, the stu
dent union and the dormitory,
will be on a tract of land ap
proximately one square block in
area recently acquired by the
college, with George, Fayette
ville, and Nelson streets as
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Biology Professor
To Attend Russian
Microbiology Meet
Dr. Nell Hirschberg, profes
sor of biology at North Carolina
College, will attend the 9th In
ternational Congress for Micro
biologists July 24-31 in Moscow,
Kussia, where she will present a
paper on Leptospirosis from
data gathered under a U. S.
Public Health Service grant.
A member of the American
Society of Microbiologists, she
will be one of several American
microbiologists attending the
congress.
Dr. Hirschberg will travel
through the Balkans on her re
turn to the United States.
New Student Union
Building Approved
North Carolina College will
add to its physical plant a $1,-
020,000 student union building,
William Jones, chairman of the
college’s interim committee, an
nounced recently.
To be located on Fayetteville
Street between George and Nel
son streets on property recent
ly acquired by the college, the
building will be two-story with
split-level entrances. It will
contain 38,986 square feet of
space and will be constructed
of reinforced concrete with
brick and concrete exterior. A
spacious paved parking lot is
planned adjacent to Fayette
ville Street to serve the build
ing.
The fully air-conditioned
structure, which will also be
equipped with the latest mod
ern food service equipment, will
have a variety of modern serv-
ive and recreational facilities.
The ground floor will contain
a post office with 1500 boxes,
a book and supply store, beauty
and barber shops, a cafeteria
and dining room with terrace,
a snack bar, and ping pong and
billiards rooms.
On the upper floor will be a
large lounge and multipurpose
room for lectures, concerts, and
dances; office space for the col
lege’s Student Government As
sociation and for student pub
lications, a general administra
tive office area, music and rec
reation rooms, and television
and reading rooms.
Architects for the project are
Carr, Harrison, Pruden, and
DePasquale, Associated Archi
tects of Durham, with George
Watts Carr as the consulting
architect.
According to Jones, bids will
be advertised in July. A $660,-
000 loan by the U. S. Depart
ment of Housing and Urban
Development will support part
of the cost of the project.
College Announces New
Graduate Media Program
boundaries. The student union
will face George and Nelson
streets, with a spacious parking
area on Fayetteville Street,
while the high-rise dormitory
will be erected on the George-
Nelson Street block facing
George Street.
Twenty Visitors
On Summer Faculty
Among North Carolina Col
lege’s summer faculty of 82 per
sons are 20 specialists from a
variety of colleges and univer
sities and school systems, a re
port by Dr. C. L. Patterson,
acting director of the Summer
School, revealed recently.
Visiting personnel, who aug
ment the institution’s regular
teachers in five departments, are
the following:
In education: Mrs. Ruth An
derson, Roanoke City Schools,
Roanoke, Virginia; Dr. John
Burks, Jersey City Teachers
College, Jersey City, N. J.; Dr.
James T. Guines, St. Augus
tine’s College, Raleigh; Mrs.
Piccola L. Morrow, Winston-
Salem Public Schools; Dr. M.
Vanella, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro; John M.
Hennike, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Mrs. Marian Vick, Winston-
Salem State College, Winston-
Salem ; Dr. Richard Fields, Ben
nett College, Greensboro; Dr.
David Reilly, Woodbridge, New
Jersey; Dr. Edward Nicholson,
University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill.
In library science are Mrs.
Hazel Bass, Durham; Mrs. Ocy-
dee Williams, Waycross, Ga.;
and Mrs. Nell B. Wright, Win
ston-Salem State College, Win
ston-Salem.
Others are Dr. Raafat Mish-
riky. University of North Caro
lina at Chapel Hill, mathemat
ics; Dr. Jack S. Brayboy,
Johnson C. Smith University,
Charlotte, physical education;
Charles Jarmon, Duke Univer
sity, sociology; and Karl Garri
son, Duke University, sociology.
North Carolina College re
cently gained approval by the
State Department of Public In
struction and the National
Council for the Accreditation
of Teacher Education to offer
a graduate program for the
preparation of audiovisual di
rectors.
The most recently approved
among several NCC education
programs authorized this year,
the new program was an
nounced by James E. Parker,
director of the college’s Audio
visual Center, and Dr. F. G.
Shipman, chairman of the De
partment of Education. Lead
ing to a Master of Arts degree,
it is designed to offer training
which will qualify students as
directors of public school au
diovisual programs.
Satisfactory completion of
the course of study can lead to
appointment as an audiovisual
director in individual school
units or in city or countywide
school systems, Parker said,
adding that more and more
school units and systems are
appointing audiovisual direc
tors under the impetus of the
availability of NDEA funds.
The NCC course of study in
cludes twelve semester hours
of audiovisual education, in
cluding a thesis; six semester
hours of basic foundation
courses in education; six se
mester hours of educational ad
ministration and supervision;
and from nine to twelve hours
in a subject-matter minor.
Experiences provided in the
program include selection, uti
lization, administration, and
production of a variety of types
of instructional materials. Can
didates will have experiences in
instructional television, photog
raphy, graphic materials, re
cordings, and in-service train
ing workshops.
Commenting on values of the
program, Parker said: “Approv
al by NCATE means that
North Carolina College gradu
ates will be accepted and certi
fied in other states. The prepa
ration program at NCC is
therefore national in scope.
Many job opportunities in the
field are available, and they
are growing in number as other
facets of education develop—
such as Breakthrough, the Na
tional Teachers’ Corps, and
Headstart.”
TIME OUT FOR RELAXATION—Seeking refuge from the summer heat,
Brenda A. Tjggart picks a shady spot on the North Carolina College
campus between classes for a moment of relaxation. A junior major
ing in psychology, she is a native of Salisbury.