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VOL. XXVI
Spray, N. C., November 6, 1967
NO. 9
Fund Drive Set For RCC Student Center
A Special Messiage
FROM OUR BOARD CHAIRMAN
Within a few days all Fieldcrest employees in the Eden area
will be solicited for a contribution to the building fund of a pro
posed Student Center for Rockingham Community College. You
will be asked to make your gift through a payroll deduction
pledge to be collected weekly over a 24-month period.
The Co'mpany and its officers heartily endorse this project and
urge you to consider it carefully. Seven companies with plants in
our county have pledged $250,000 toward the estimated cost of
$500,000, PROVIDED the citizens of the county pledge an equal
amount of $250,000. The companies making the challenge gift
are:
Fieldcrest Mills, Inc.
American Tobacco Co.
Burlington Industries
Madison Throwing Co.
Washington Mills
Spray Cotton Mills
Cone Mills, Inc.
Total
$100,000
50.000
25.000
25,000
25.000
15.000
10.000
$250,000
I would like to see our employees in the Eden plants equal the
Company’s challenge with an equal gift of $100,000. This would
insure the sucess of the campaign. This sounds like a lot of money
— BUT IF EVERY EMPLOYEE WOULD PLEDGE ONLY 25
CENTS PER WEEK FOR 24 MONTHS THE CHALLENGE
Would be METI This is less than the cost of three Coca-Colas or
three cups of coffee or one package of cigarettes per week. There
are few employees who cannot afford this or would even miss this
small amount weekly.
I have had the privilege of serving on the Board of Trustees of
the college since it was formed. I am convinced that Rockingham
Community College is the greatest asset the county has ever had.
Now, in its second year, over 1,500 individuals from our county
are taking one or more subjects in the college. We have the
equivalent of 900 fulltime students enrolled, which is 50 percent
more than was predicted for the second year. Any boy or girl with
the ambition to succeed can acquire a college education at a very
modest cost. Any “drop out” or adult who was forced to leave
school at an early age can go back and continue his education or
training. The college classes start at 8 a. m. and continue until
10 p. m. You can work and learn!
Our world is changing. Business and industry require people
with knowledge and skills. Education pays off in dollars and cents.
Why won’t the Federal government, or the county, or the state
build this badly needed building? Because the demands for edu-
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Contributions Of Private Citizens
Asked To Match Challenge Gift
To Build Vitally-Needed Facility
Fieldcrest men and women will have
an important part in the campaign to
raise funds to- make possible the vitally-
needed new Student Center at Rock
ingham Community College. A campaign
to enlist the support of all Fieldcresters
in the Eden area has been scheduled for
November 15, 16 and 17.
The goal of the campaign—Fieldcrest
ers’ share in the $500,000 project—is
$100,000. It is believed that this amount
can be obtained in pledges in the three-
day campaign and the results announced
the first of the following week.
The new student center will be a
building specifically planned for the
many non-class and non-laboratory ac
tivities, essential to the total College
program. It will be a two-story building
consistent with the architectural style
of the other campus buildings. Prelim
inary plans indicate a need for approxi
mately 32,000 square feet of functional
floor space.
While County, State and Federal
funds have provided basic classroom
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Greenville Employees
Attain 100% Fair Share
For the second consecutive year, 100%
of the employees of the Karastan Spin
ning Division at Greenville have
pledged a Fair Share or more to the Pitt
County United Fund. All 260 employees
of the plant contributed on the Fair
Share basis and, as far as is known, the
plant was the only industry in the
county with 100% Fair Share partici
pation.
The campaign at the Karastan Spin
ning Division was lead by W. G. Newell,
general foreman who has since been
appointed superintendent of the Win
chester Spinning Mill and Luby Skinner,
general night foreman who has just been
promoted to assistant superintendent at
Greenville.
The plant manager, Henry F. Morris,
is the immediate past president of the
Pitt County United Fund and now
serves as chairman of the budget com
mittee. Jack Birchcr, assistant wool
buyer at Greenville, is this year’s presi
dent of the Pitt County United Fund.