THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
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VOLUME 4, No. 15
WILKESBORO. NORTH CAROLINA
DECEMBER 2, 1974
120 Give So Others May Live Wilkes Student Grand Marshal
Students, instructors, min
isters, broadcasters, factory
workers and politicians, they
were all here in November giv
ing the gift of blood. 120 pints
of blood were collected from as
many donors between the hours
♦
U G G G H H
of 11:00 a.m. and 3:30 in the
afternoon.
The Reverend Mike Jordan,
blood program chairman for the
Wilkes-Alleghany chapter of
the American Red Cross stated
. . . “It was one of our most
successful visits this year. Of
the 120 donors 39 donated for
the first time. This according
to Rev. Jordan is an unusually
high percentage of first time
donors.
Of the total donors the ma
jority were students. The Red
Cross and Wilkes Community
College would like to thank the
Journal Patriot, WWWC and
WKBC for their help in mak
ing the visit a success.
SURE I’LL GIVE. JUST HAND ME THE MONEY
Social Services On The Move
By Patsy Jolly
Members of the new WCC
Social Services program have
carried their interests into the
professional fields they study.
Instructor Tina Howard has ac
companied the class on field
trips to Central Prison in
Raleigh, to the Juvenile Court
Counselors’ Office in downtown
Wilkesboro, and to Broughton
State Mental Hospital in Mor-
ganton.
At Central Prison, the stu
dents were taken on a tour of
the prison facilities. They saw
the gas chamber, cell blocks,
and the prison hospital. They
received an overall view of
prison life and enjoyed a ques
tion and answer period. They
then drove across town to the
Women’s Division for a similar
experience.
In downtown Wilkesboro, the
students had the fortunate op
portunity to speak with Judge
Davis, who had taken time out
from his busy schedule to meet
with them. Next, the court
counselors divided the group
and shared juvenile delinquent
cases and working experiences
with the students. They dis
cussed their duties and the
general involvement.
At the State Mental Hospi
tal, the students enjoyed a
classroom discussion with a
hospital social worker. He did
an outstanding job of explain
ing the roles of a psychiatric
social worker. The students
then traveled through the hos
pital, visiting various wards
and mingling with the patients.
The students found the field
trips enlightening and enjoy
able. Through these visitations,
the Social Services class had
opportunities to see the profes
sional helping methods they
are learning in the classroom
put into actual use.
John McCann
The temperature was a chilly
thirty-seven degrees. The cold
winds reached up off the Yad
kin and nipped at the coattails
of all those lined along the
streets through portions of two
counties. The occasion was
not, as my dear editor had
thought, a late Fourth of July
celebration.
It was as I had guessed the
annual Elkin-Jonesville Christ
mas parade.
Being used to only Wilkes
County driving, my editor
found himself and me at the
tail end of the parade. The
only things we could see from
our vantage point was Santa’s
posterior and an occasional
baton being launched by some
hidden girl with nervous hands.
So, by careful maneuvering
through heavy traffic and liter
ally throngs of people I manag
ed to position myself where I
could see what was going on
and not what had gone by.
It was cold, and loud, some
of the notes disseminated by
the bands were lower than the
temperature. But the heart
could only be warmed by the
smile of the beautiful young
lady riding in the front car and
presiding as grand marshal.
Barbara Marion, singing star,
beauty queen and most import
ant to us a student at Wilkes
Community College. Congra
tulations Barbara.
lutroductiou
To Cinema
Winter Quarter 1974-75
Dec. 3, Raisin in the Sun;
Dec. 10, Wrong Box; Dec. 17,
Golden Age of Comedy; Jan. 7,
Seventh Seal; Jan. 14, Ship of
Fools; Jan. 21, Grand Illusion;
Jan. 28, Black Cat; Feb. 4, Mr.
Smith Goes To Washington;
Feb. 11, Rashomon; Feb. 18,
The Circus - The Immigrant.
BARBARA MARION
Dr. Thompson In Who’s
Who Of United States
Dr. H. E. Thompson, presi
dent of Wilkes Community
College, has just been informed
of his nomination and selection
to appear in the 1975 edition of
Who’s Who in the United
States.
Dr. Thompson is currently
listed in Who’s Who in Ameri
can Education, Who’s Who in
South and Southwest, Who’s
Who in American College and
University Administration, Dic
tionary of International Bio
graphy (England), and North
Carolina Lives (Who’s Who in
North Carolina).
om FAR SEEING COMMISSIONERS
On December 2 (the day of
swearing in for our new county
commissioners) Dr. Howard
Thompson will present to The
Board of Commissioners the
Roy Thompson
To Speak At
Wilkes College
John McCann
On December 18 Roy Thomp
son, writer for the Winston-
Salem Journal, will speak at
Wilkes Community College. By
request of the newspaper staff,
Mr. Thompson will address the
‘Cougar Cry’ staff and all in
terested persons in the teach
ing auditorium at 2:00 p.m.
Mr. Thompson has traveled
extensively throughout North
Carolina from the Outer Banks
on the east to the Inter Coves
of the west. This should prove
to be an interesting address and
everyone is invited.
following proposal:
In Simple Terms
The State of North Carolina
and the Federal Government
are willing to join with us to
help the construction needs of
the already out-grown facilities
of our college.
The State and Federal Gov
ernment have one million dol
lars for us. All we have to do
to get it is to be half as inter
ested in the future of education
in Wilkes County as they are.
In other words, if the County
Commissioners reach into the
abundance of our revenue shar
ing pot and pull out $500,000
the government will come
across with a million more,
making a grand total of one and
a half million dollars for
Wilkes Community College.
Maybe They Know Something'
We Don’t
Now there are several things
to keep in mind. One being the
results of the recent bond issue
when the voters landslidedly
denied building funds for the
college. Pretty nearly the same
time, six smaller (some much
smaller — we are number two
ya know) colleges were voted
over sixteen million by the vot
ers in their counties. Maybe
this is why the Government
took an interest in the great
State of Wilkes.
To paraphrase Dwight Nich
ols’ editorial The J o u r n al
Patriot, November 21, 1974:
“This may be the greatest
single development in the pro
gress of Wilkes County in this
generation and it would be a
shame to pass it up.”
The request will be for an
appropriation of funds which
unlike a Bond Issue does not
raise taxes and does not obli
gate this and future genera
tions for payment.
Certainly our far seeing
county fathers will not pass up
the opportunity of investing in
this county’s number one asset,
The Education of its Youth.
Dr. Clarence B. Carson, di
rector of Who’s Who Honorary
Society of America, stated in
his letter to Dr. Thompson,
“You have been nominated and
selected to appear in the 1975
edition of Who’s Who in the
United States, which is a bio
graphical dictionary of out
standing citizens of this coun
try. We believe, from the in
formation we have received,
that you meet the criteria for
inclusion in this outstanding
publication. This is a library
reference publication, which
will be placed in libraries
throughout the United States
and the western world. Your
biographical information listed
in this publication will be an
asset to students and research
ers through the years.
Again, congratulations on be
ing selected to appear in this
important publication as an
outstanding citizen of the Unit
ed Stales.”
DR. HOWARD THOMPSON