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VOL. LXXXI— NO. 15
BOONE, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1968
PRICE: TEN CENTS
Plus 550 In Extension Courses
5,538 Enroll At University
Appalachian State University
has a fall quarter registration
of 5,538 resident students—
by far the largest enrollment
in the institution’s history.
The total enrollment, which
includes 5,102 undergraduates
and 436 graduate students, rep
resents an increase of 12 per
cent over the 4,862 enrollment
for the fall quarter of 1967.
The 1966 enrollment was 4,417.
The undergraduate total in
cludes 1,698 freshmen, 1,182
sophomores, 1,234 juniors, 957
seniors and 31 special students.
The grand total of 5,538 does
not include the 550 students
enrolled in ASU’s extension
courses, according to Dean
Meredith, ASU Registrar.
While this fall’s undergrad
uate enrollment of 5,102 is far
above the 4,403 of 1967, the
At the opening of the Librarianship Institute, Miss Louise Sutherland of Charlottesville, Va„
speaks to the 20-member group enrolled in the current program. At extreme right is Miss
Eunice Query, associate professor of library science at the university.
ASU Academic-Year Event To
Be First In North Carolina
North Carolina’s first aca
demic-year institute is being
conducted at Appalachian State
University under a grant from
the U.S. Office of Education,
Title II B, Higher Education
Act.
Miss Eunice Query, associate
professor of Library Science
at the University, is director
of “The Institute for Training
in Librarianship,’’ and James
H. Smith, visiting instructor,
is assistant director.
The 20 participants in the in
stitute were privileged Wednes
day, Oct. 2, to have as a guest
Miss Louise Sutherland, who is
Program Officer for ESEA,
from the regional office erf the
U.S. Office of Education at
Charlottesville, Va.
Miss Sutherland spoke about
national trends in education and
told how they are affecting li
brary programs in America’s
elementary and secondary
schools.
“The librarian is no longer
just a care-taker,” Miss
Sutherland said. “The librarian
is totally involved in the
school’s learning program. She
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is an indespensible part of the
school.”
Miss Sutherland has been a
teacher-librarian in Dickenson
County, Va., and county library
supervisor and head of the Me
dia Center in Giles County, Va.,
where she drove a Bookmobile
to circulate materials to the
schools in the county. She
worked with the State Depart
ment of Education in Richmond,
Va., before taking her present
job. She holds a master's degree
in library science from Pea
body in Nashville, Tenn., and
has done graduate work at the
University of Virginia.
The regional office in Char
lottesville serves Region 3,
which includes Puerto Rico, the
Virgin Islands, Maryland,
Washington, D. C„, Virginia,
West Virginia, Kentucky, and
North Carolina. Miss Suther
land noted that of all the school
libraries, those in Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands house
the most meager collections of
instructional materials before
the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act was passed by
Congress.
Dr. Warren G. Anderson, in
two seminar sessions, dis
cussed innovations and trends
in schools today. Dr. Anderson
is principal of Appalachian Ele
mentary School in Boone.
He said that with the growing
importance of the librarian in
education, it is increasingly
necessary that the librarian be
adequately informed about cur
riculum changes.
Dr. Anderson holds a bache
lor of science degree in educa
tion from the University of
Richmond; and he holds both a
master’s and doctorial degree
in education from UNC-Chapel
Hill. He has served in Raleigh
as elementary school principal,
elementary supervisor and di
rector of federal programs for
a total of nine years.
Only 20 were selected to
attend the Institute which ap
plies toward a Master of Arts
degree with a major in library
science. According to the di
rector of the institute, the 20
were chosen from a large num
ber of applicants.
Various types of libraries and
services are represented in the
institute. Ten of the participants
are elementary school librar
ians, five are senior high li
brarians, two are junior high
librarians, one is an elementary
school library supervisor, one
is head of a division of cen
tralized processing, and one is
a high school librarian in addi
tion to working in a centra]
processing department.
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enrollment of graduate students
(436) is less than the 537 figure
of last year. The extension
enrollment erf 550 is 53 less than
a year ago.
Some 760 students are from
out-of-state, including eight
from foreign countries. Thirty
two states, plus the District
of Columbia, are represented.
The largest enrollment
comes from Watauga with 328
residents enrolled. Other coun
ties in the top 10 are Meck
lenburg, 286 students;Catawba,
264; Guilford, 245; Forsyth,
244; Wilkes, 188; Iredell, 168;
Caldwell, 161; Davidson, 143;
and Gaston, 137.
Nearby Ashe County sponsors
a total of 115, Mitchell has 36
and Alleghany County students
number 33. Only 11 North
Carolina counties are not rep
resented by students at Appal
achian.
One-hundred eighty-seven
Virginians, 143 South Carolin
ians and 142 Floridians are at
the univex sity this quarter.The
fourth and fifth states—with 77
and 51 students respectively—
are New Jersey and New York.
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fall semester went to press
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staffs ever.
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man of the Division of Radio-1 V,
Journalism and Printing, said
over 125 students are on the
staff of the weekly paper.
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of the Burlington Yarn Company division of Burlington In
dustries will be dedicated in ceremonies at noon Thursday.
5 WHS Students Seek
Morehead Honors
Five young men in the senior
class at Watauga High School
have been nominated by the
school’s scholarship committee
to compete for a Morehead Scho
larship to the University of
North Carolina.
They are Robert McNeelv.
Paul Miller, Phil Smith, J.C.
Triplett and Gray Wilson.
The Morehead Grant is a
scholarship of $2,000 for each
of four years for study at the
University of North Carolina.
The five Watauga High students
will appear before the Watauga
County Morehead Scholarship
Committee soon after Tuesday,
Oct. 15.
One of the young men will be
selected to compete in district
competition in November. Win
ners of district interviews will
appear before the Central Com
mittee in Chapel Hill in Janu
Approximately 60 Morehead
scholars will be selected from
North Carolina high schools in
1968.
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control. At the same time, the
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for Southern Louisiana.
Ely R. Callaway, president of Burlington Industries, will be
the dedication speaker. Some 600 to 700 local, regional and
state leaders and other invited guests are expected to attend
the dedication and plant tours. A public open house and guided
tours will be held there Saturday afternoon. The new facility
represents an investment of some $ million and presently
employs some 200 persons in the manufacture of textured
yarns for the apparel fabrics market. Mountain City, Tenn.,
is in neighboring Johnson County.
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