Bonds
for WCC
The passage of the community col
lege bond referendum on Novem
ber 2, means that officials at Wilkes
Community College will begin to move
forward with plans to construct a new
Learning Resources/Student
Center.
The new Center will house a library,
media production laboratory, offices
for student development personnel,
and student commons. The new build
ing will be a two story structure con
taining approximately 25,000
square feet per floor. It is estimated
that the building will cost approx
imately $4.7 million, including design
costs.
The college’s library is currenty
housed in Thompson Hall. It was
designed for 1,000 students. Today,
WCC enrolls nearly 2,000 students in
one-and two-year degree programs
and another 3,000 to 4,000 students
in continuing education courses. The
library was originally set up to hold
30,000 books. Today, the library con
tains just over 500,000 books. Be
cause of the space limitation of the
existing library, book shelves are over
flowing and are crowded close to
gether.
The second component of the new
building will be a student center. This
new center will bring together in one
location resources for students cur
rently scattered across campus. In
cluded in the center will be a new food
service and vending area, college book
store, student government office, stu
dent meeting rooms, lounge area and
offices for the college’s Student De
velopment staff.
The bond will provide $250 million
for the state’s 58 community colleges.
Because this was a statewide bond ref
erendum, there will be no increase in
local property tax. ” The General Assem
bly plans to retire the debt on the
bonds through the revenues already
being generated. The state’s debt serv
ice is very low, the state has a AAA
bond rating — the best rating possible
— and interest rates are at an all-time
low.
Student’s Life:
Not a
Happy One
Think today’s students have a
rough time?
Think of the rules of student
behavior taken from a manuscript
titled. Statutes of King’s College in the
City of New York, the former name of
Columbia University.
The rules or statutes, published in
1763, included these provisions:
v'Everyone had to attend daily
prayers as early as 5 a.m.
Students had to wear the aca
demic habit at all times.
'/Students could not leave campus
without permission, nor leave their
rooms after 9 in the evening.
•/A student could be expelled if he
were caught twice playing cards or
dice.
Parents had to post a bond upon
their child’s admission to the College,
in part "to make good all Damages
that the said student shall willfully
have been the Occasion of.”
A student could be fined 10 shill
ings if he chose to "willfully and per
sonally affront the President of the
College,” or if he "molested the Presi
dent by making unreasonable
noises.” If the student’s offense was
serious enough, he was "oblig’d to
compose and repeat in the Publick
Hall a Modest Recantation of his Fault
in order to deter his Fellow students
from the like practices.”
>/And (lacking an invasion-of-
privacy custom) the president of the
college was authorized to visit any
student’s room at any time and, if
denied entrance, break down the
door.
The rare manuscript containing
these rules was first owned by John
Jay, once a student at King’s College.
He graduated in 1764 and went on to
become President of the Continental
Congress, a noted American diplomat
in Europe, the governor of New York,
and the nation’s first Chief Justice.
Seven Named
Nurse Scholars
Seven local students have been
named to the N.C. Nurse Scholars
Program, a state-funded scholarship
program designed to attract students
to the nursing profession. They were
among 1,442 who applied for this
competitive, merit-based program.
All seven are attending community
college nursing programs. They re
ceive grants for $3,000 per year which
are renewable. They are required to
work full time as registered nurses in
the state one year for each year fund
ing is received.
Candidates must have earned a 3.0
grade-point average in high school
work and have demonstrated leader
ship and service through extra
curricular activities.
Nurse scholars attending Wilkes
Community are Diana Lynn Barker,
Sebrina Shefawn Hamm, Candace
Dawn Jordan, Sheila Jean Morgan,
Laura Christine Spencer, and Tammy
S. Worley.
One scholar is a student at Caldwell
Community College and Technical
Institute, Hudson. She is Evelyn
Patrick Brewer.
From: Jefferson Post
Beacon Hill
Property
The WCC Endowment Corpora
tion will soon announce that it has
completed negotiation with the Relia
ble Insurance Company for the pur
chase of the 25-acre tract of land
between the college and NC 268 and
the 20,000 square foot building lo
cated on the land. The price is
$800,000 with Reliable donating
$100,000 toward the purchase. The
Endowment Corporation will have to
raise $700,000. Fortunately, a dona
tion of $250,000 has already been
made by a person who wishes to
remain anonymous. This reduces the
actual amount yet to be raised to
$450,000. The Endowment Corpora
tion is off and running on this fund
raising project.
The anonymous donor has re
quested that the college’s child care
operation be moved to the new build
ing and expanded. It is hoped that the
child care operation could become a
model for northwestern North Carol
ina, both in terms of services provided
to pre-school children and their fami
lies and as a training facility for child
care workers. It is my hope that on the
next round of grants to the State’s
Smart Start initiative, Wilkes County
will be successful, in part, because of
this new facility.
Twenty-One
WCC Nurses
Pass Exam
Wilkes Community College re
cently received notification that all
twenty-one May, 1993 graduates had
successfully completed the National
Licensure Examination for Registered
Nurses. Out of 60 programs in the
state, WCC is one of 18 with 100% of
its students passing.
The two-day exam is designed to
insure that nursing graduates are cap
able of safe and effective practice as
Registered Nurses. All nursing gradu
ates take the same licensure exam
regardless of educational program.
WCC’s two-year associate degree
program is a challenging curriculum
which provides individuals with the
opportunity to gain expertise in hy
giene skills, positioning, medication
administration, intravenous therapy,
assessment, care planning and manage
ment.
Students receive both classroom
and clinical experience in all nursing
courses. The students gain their clini
cal experience from six area agencies
which include Wilkes Regional Medi
cal Center and Britthaven both in
Wilkesboro; Broughton
Hospital in Morganton; Cannon Me
morial Hospital in Banner Elk; and
Forsyth Memorial Hospital and
North Carolina Baptist Hospital both
in Winston-Salem.
WCC is currently accepting appli
cations for fall, 1994. Class size is
limited and the application deadline is
December 15,1993. Individuals inter
ested in admission to the program
should complete courses in high
school algebra, chemistry, and biol
ogy. Prospective students who lack
these courses should contact Brenda
Jolly in the Student Development
Office at 910/651-8631 for more
information.
WCC’s 1993 nursing graduates
who passed the licensure examination
are: Kelly Ashley of Warrensville,
Kimberly Blackburn of Roaring
River, Kimberly Breaseale of Wilkes
boro, Laura Bumgarner of Wilkes
boro, Carolyn Edwards of Laurel
Springs, Mary Ellis of Moravian Falls,
Angela Greer of Crumpler, Delores
Hamby of Wilkesboro, Sandra Lam
bert of West Jefferson, Sheryl Marlow
of Statesville, Diana McClure of Lans
ing, Sheila Owens of North Wilkes
boro, Karen Phipps of Sparta, Barbara
Reynolds of Wilkesboro, Edith
Roark of Boomer, Christie Saunders
of Hays, Wendy Sidden of Traphill,
Laura Wagoner of Taylorsville,
Meredith Walker of Boone, Angelia
Whitley of Roaring River, and Sharon
Wilcox of Wilkesboro.
Attention Poets
Owings Mills, Maryland (USA) — The Natiorml Library of Poetry has announced
that $ 12,000 in prices will be awarded this year to over 250 poets in the North American
Open Poetry Contest. The deadline for the contest is December }i, 1993. Thecontestis
open to everyone and entry is FREE.
Any poet, whether previously published or not, can be a winner. Every poem entered
also has a chance to be published in a deluxe, hardbound anthology.
To enter, send ONE original poem, any subject and any style, to the National Library
of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Dr., P.O. Box 704-ZN, Owings Mills, MD 21117. The
poem should be no more than 20 lines, arul the poet's name and address should appear
on the top of the page. Entries must be postmarked by December 31,1993. A neu) contest
opens January i, 1994.