Page Six
THE SUMMER ECHO
Monday, July 24, 1967
Twenty Are Visitors
On Summer Faculty
ON DUTY—Miss Virginia Rogers, left, hands a message to Mrs. Travis
Free at the North Carolina College switchboard. The two operators also
serve as receptionists, receive telegraph messages, special delivery mail
and parcel post, and handle many of the routine—and not so routine—
requests for information phoned to the college.
Switchboard Gets
Unusual Requests
A student is not in his dormi
tory room, and the worried par
ents have to be assured that he
is almost certainly safe and out
of mischief.
Visitors are looking for the
Education Building and must
be directed.
Someone wants to know when
school opens next fall.
The president of another col
lege sends a telegram urging his
boys to defeat NCC in basket
ball. The wire must be delivered.
“Be My Valentine,” say the
25-pound box of candy and the
two dozen roses. The beloved
young lady must be located be
fore she decides she’s been for
gotten.
North Carolina College’s two
switchboard operators serve as
a link between the college and
the community; as receptionists;
as counselors; and as settlers of
bets occasionally.
“People are always calling and
asking exactly how many seats
B. N. Duke Auditorium has, or
how many faculty members there
are, or how many students
exactly,” says Miss Virginia
Rogers, who handles the morn
ing shift on the switchboard,
from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Mrs. Travis Free, the after
noon operator, lists the duties
she has to perform in addition
to operation of the PABX
(Private Automatic Branch Ex
change) switchboard as follows:
“Receptionist duties; general
information clerk; advisor;
counselor; assisting in locating
students, visitors and guests
attending conferences or various
affairs on campus; acting as
‘go-between’ for security officers
during emergencies; receiving
all wires and cablegrams, special
delivery packages and letters.”
Posted on the bulletin board
beside the switchboard are
notices of special events, class
schedules, college schedules,
maps of the campus and of
Durham, football and basketball
schedules for the entire CIAA
conference, lists of off-campus
students and their addresses,
and, in addition, notices of
special events at neighboring
schools.
“A man called me and asked
when A & T’s graduation was,”
Miss Rogers recalls.
A Western Union Introfax
machine transmits messages to
and from the local Western
Union office. Mrs. Free estimates
that from forty to fifty money
orders are received on days be
fore or after holidays, registra
tion periods, and days when fees
are due.
New equipment has improved
the overall service at the college,
the operators say, although some
of the new features cause dif
ficulty occasionally.
When 9 is dialed for an out
side line, the user then has 12
seconds to complete his number.
Previously, many users had
dialed 9 to get the outside line
(which often took several tries),
then held the line while they
looked up their number.
Campus users are generally
unaware of a special hold feature
on the switchboard. If an out
side caller wishes to wait until
an extension is free, his call can
be locked in. If the user of that
extension hangs up, then im
mediately dials again, the call on
hold may be lost.
Long distance calls from ex
tensions must be placed by the
operators.
The switchboard opens at 7 :30
Monday through Saturday, clos
ing at 8:30 p.m. The night serv
ice in New Residence Hall is
handled by student operators
until 12:30 a.m. Central Heating
Plant employees then handle all
calls until the switchboard opens.
Hundred of local calls pass
through the switchboard daily,
in addition to from 50 to 75 in
coming long distance calls and
an average of 50 outgoing long
distance calls.
The two operators are assisted
by two student relief operators
and two student attendants in
New Residence Hall.
Two Get McClure
Grants For ’67-68
Miss Martha Lugenia Byrd of
Asheville, N. C., and Miss Re
gina Ann Gardner of Ellenboro,
N. C., have been named recipi
ents of $400 freshman scholar
ships to attend North Carolina
College by the scholarship com
mittee of the James G. K. Mc
Clure Educational and Develop
ment Fund of Asheville.
The McClure scholarships are
awarded on the basis of high
school record for both scholar
ship and leadership, evidence of
Christian character, financial
need, intellectual promise and
demonstrated ambition.
The awards are limited to
residents of the following North
Carolina counties: Allegheny,
Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke,
Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Gra
ham, Haywood, Henderson, Jack
son, Macon, Madison, McDowell,
Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford,
Swain, Transylvania, Watauga
and Yancey.
Rural residents are given pre
ference under the scholarship
program.
Applications for the scholar
ships are submitted directly to
specific colleges participating.
North Carolina College’s 1967
summer faculty, which numbers
about 80 persons, has 20 visi
tors within its ranks, a report
by Dr. C. L. Patterson, acting
director of the Summer School,
indicates.
Resident and visiting profes
sors are offering 201 under
graduate, graduate, and profes
sional courses; are conducting
federally sponsored programs;
are teaching in special pro
grams, such as mental retarda
tion, speech and hearing, and
elementary materials; and are
supervising theses of graduate
students.
According to Patterson, the
nine-week session, which began
June 12, and the six-week in
tersession, which began June
26, have a wide range of offer
ings, among them a continua
tion of the six-year college pro
gram for school administration
Printing for college depart
ments, offices and functions can
now be done on campus.
The purchase by the college
of a Model 1250W Multilith
Duplicator Press and the crea
tion of the Duplicating Depart
ment, temporarily housed in
the Storage Building on George
Street, permit printing of vari
ous materials for college use.
David Tedder, who joined the
college staff as manager of the
Duplicating Department on May
15, will offer assistance as re
quired with design and layout
of programs, brochures, simple
booklets and pamphlets, covers
for reports and other materials.
Stationery, business forms,
applications, brochures, form
letters, brown kraft envelopes,
placards, tickets, circulars,
memorandums, invitations, and
inter-office forms are among
other jobs which can be done
with the offset equipment.
A major advantage over du
plicating processes previously
available on campus is accurate
and supervision, a workshop in
alcoholic studies, competent
graduate instruction “with ade
quate provisions for thesis
supervision,” and an institute
for cooperating teachers.
Drawn from other education
al institutions and from teach
ing and supervisory positions
in public school systems, the
visiting faculty members are as
follows:
Dr. Wippert A. Stumpf, edu
cation, Duke University; Dr.
Rose Butler Browne, education,
retired NCC professor; Nathan
Cook, education, Barber-Scotia
College; Dr. Charles U. De
Berry, education, Winston-Sa-
lem State College; Dr. Joseph
Fields, education, Bennett Col
lege; Miss Piccola Morrow, ed
ucation, Winston-Salem City
Schools.
Viston Burton Jr., geogra
phy, University of North Caro
lina; Mrs. Esther Fennell, li
reproduction of glossy photo
graphs and printed illustra-
trations. A special typewriter
has been ordered to permit use
of various type sizes in bro
chures, programs and other
materials.
Two processes are available
with the offset equipment. A
metal master copy, prepared by
the Duplicating Department
from an exact copy of the ma
terial desired typed or drawn
on smooth white paper, will
permit the printing of up to
20,000 clear copies from one
master. The metal master can
be preserved for future use if
less than 20,000 copies are de
sired initially.
The paper master process
will reproduce up to 5,000
copies. "Tedder recommends this
process for materials which
will be required only once,
since it is less expensive. Ma
terials for making paper mas
ters, including multilith ribbons
for typewriters, multilith eras
ers, reproducing and non-re
brary science, Baltimore, Md.,
city schools; Mrs. Ocydee Wil
liams, library science, Way-
cross, Ga., city schools; Dr.
Normal K. Sinha, sociology, St.
Augustine’s College; Charles
Jarmon, sociology, Duke Uni
versity; Dr. Odell Uzzell, so
ciology, Fayetteville State Col
lege; Mrs. Ruth L. Anderson,
education, Roanoke, Va., school
system; Mrs. Marian Vick, ed
ucation, Winston-Salem State
College; Dr. David Reilly, edu
cation, University of North
Carolina.
Dr. Henry Sublett, education,
Duke University; Miss Marga
ret Thorpe, home economics,
Delaware State College; Mrs.
Elizabeth Barfield, education,
Raleigh City Schools; Erwin
Johnson, physical education,
Durham county schools; and
Mrs. Anna Anthony Curry, li
brary science, Baltimore, Md.,
city schools.
producing pencils, and the mas
ter sheets themselves, may be
obtained from the Storage
Building.
Other services available from
the Duplicating Department in
clude paper cutting, hole drill
ing, padding, collating (of ma
terials processed in the depart
ment), halftone photographic
reproductions, folding, and
scratch pads (free when avail
able).
For departments and offices,
use of the Duplicating Depart
ment involves submission of a
requisition for duplicating serv
ice. Forms are available from
the Duplicating Department
and the Purchasing Depart
ment. These forms are also for
use when the Duplicating De
partment must refer the print
ing to a commercial printer.
For personal college-related
work, the printing charges
must be paid in advance. A job
cost estimate must be secured
from the Duplicating Depart
ment.
PRESS RUN—David Tedder, manager of the new Duplicating Department at North Carolina College, in
spects a metal master plate for the college’s Multilith offset press before beginning a printing job. The new
department is temporarily housed in the college’s storage building on George Street.
Duplicating Department
Offers Varied Services