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THE VOICE OF WILKES COMMUNITY COLLEGE
VOLUMEM2 - NO. 3
WILKESBORO, NORTH CAROLINA
JANUARY 13, 1983
Homecoming 1983
Who’s Who Selected at WCC
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On Thursday, January 6, at
12:20 p.m.. Dr. Bob Thompson
announced the 1982-’83 recipients
of the Who’s Who Among Junior
College Students. Eighteen sopho
mores were chosen to receive the
award. The students were chosen
on basis of leadership, scholar
ship, participation in activities
and citizenship.
Those chosen were; Toni
Adams, Keith Barlow, Denise
Carroll, Debbie Dumoulin, Kim
Fitzgerald, Vickie Gardner, Pam
Lindsay, Gloria Parker, Barbara
Peek, Scott Privette, Gregg
Roten, Angela Stone, Melanie
Stone, Emilie Waddell, and
Michael Windsor.
President *s Message
Never in the history of mankind
has change been so rapid. This age
of high technology accentuates an
information revolution. Indeed,
the world is smaller in that we
must make global decisions based
on immediate knowledge, even
though thousands of miles may
separate us. While we think in
terms of progress, we at one and
the same time tinker with total
disaster. These are challenging
days to say the least! Our
challenge at Wilkes Community
College is just as real and vital.
Yesterday’s knowledge is only a
prelude to today’s demands.
Obsolescence is like a thief in the
night, stealing the relevant of one
day and leaving irrelevance and
dissolusionment. We must meet
those challenges with new pro
grams and new commitments. It
appears that computer literacy is
necessary for most of us. A
working knowledge of electronics
is vital. An understanding of
scientific methodology and math
ematical theory is essential. Of
course, communication skills are
more important than ever before.
We either meet these challenges
with vigor, or we lose our edge as
David E. Daniel
President
one of the world’s leaders. In that
light our very freedom could be in
jeopardy. As we experience these
fresh days of 1983, may we do so
with an expanded and realistic
view of our responsibilities as
citizens of our land. We must
prepare well for these days if our
ancestors are to receive a land
flowing with milk and honey.
Nobody ever said it would be
easy. Our challenge is perhaps
greater than any other generation.
God help us to meet it squarely.
Gamble Rogers Returns to WCC
Gamble Rogers will return to
the WCC stage on Friday,
January 14, at 8:00 P.M. Rogers,
a musician and storyteller of
international acclaim, appeared
here first in 1978 and returned for
two concerts in 1979, one of
which was an appearance with the
Community-College Symphony.
Since then, he has made regular
appearances on National Public
Radio, had a nationally shown
television special on PBS, written
a nationally broadcast radio play.
written, produced, and starred in
a movie scheduled to be shown
on PBS, released his second
album, and recently was seen
nationally on cable TV’s “Nice
People.”
Billboard said “(Rogers) is in a
class all his own for verbal
dexterity, ingenuity, and good
taste.” Cashbox called him “a
meritorious master of multi-syl-
labic locution.”
Rolling Stone said of a
performance, “He had given his
Homecoming
On January(5, 1983, the annual
Wilkes Community College
Homecoming will be held.
A basketball game with Pfeiffer
College will begin at 2:00 p.m.
During the halftime, the Home
coming Court will be presented
and the 1983 queen along with
Maid of Honor and Sophomore
and Freshmen Attendants will be
named.
After the game, there will be a
reception for all alumni, ball
players, cheerleaders, homecom
ing court, staff, and faculty in the
Student Commons, second floor
of the Technical Arts Building.
The Homecoming dance will be
in the gymnasium at 8:00 p.m. All
alumni, students, faculty, and
staff along with their escorts are
invited to attend.
Miss Technical
Angela Douglas
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audience a crash course in one
chapter of Americana: and
Playboy writing as his first album
was released remarked that “the
greatest unrecorded artist in
America is no longer unrecord
ed.”
This journal. The Cougar Cry,
reviewing his performance here
said, “Gamble Rogers gave them
two and one half hours of the best
entertainment they will probably
ever see.” “There is a grace
and charm to Mr. Rogers that
burns the mediocrity of other
performers from the mind.
Gamble Rogers does for his
audience what most performers
only hope to do; he sends them
away happier, better people.”
Tickets in advance are $4 for
students and senior citizens and $5
for other adults. They are $4.50
and $5.50 at the door. Rogers’
performance is sponsored by the
WCC Art Club and tickets are
available from any of its members
or at the College Book Store.
Recent Elections
at WCC
In November, when local, state
and national government elections
were going, Wilkes Community
College was participating in an
election of its own, and here are
the results: Mr. WCC is Odie
Gilbert - a Wilkes Central
graduate who is majoring in
Electrical Engineering; Miss WCC
is Lisa Sizemore - a Starmount
graduate in the two-year College
Transfer program; Miss Cougar is
Cathy Walton - a West Wilkes
graduate majoring in Drama,
Associate in Fine Arts degree;
Miss College Transfer is Pam
Lindsay - an R. S. Central
graduate in the two-year College
Transfer program, and Miss
Technical is Angela Douglas - a
North Wilkes graduate in the
Criminal Justice program. Con
gratulations!
Miss Cougar
Cathy Waltm
Miss WCC
Lisa Sizemore
Miss College Transfer
Pam Lindsay
Alumni News
The Alumni of Wilkes Com
munity College will have a
meeting following the reception at
the homecoming. All Alumni are
requested to go to room 850 of the
Technical Arts Building at 4:30
p.m.
At this meeting a committee
will be formed to nominate
and/or select a slate of officers
for the Alumni Association.
There are many activities that
will be planned for the Alumni
during the next year, so be present
to get the organization off to a
good start.