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Charlotte’s High-Q tour
nament, the contest that
matches brains instead of
brawn, will begin when
over 360 high school scho
lars match wits in the qua
lifying round February 5 at
Central Piedmont Com
munity College.
Teams from 53 high
schools in 30 counties will
participate in this opening
round, Super Saturday,
sponsored by CPCC,
WBTV, and North Carolina
National Bank.
Single elimination con
tests will pare the number
of teams to two finalists for
the April 17 championship.
The winners will earn a
silver trophy and $2,000 in
scholarships for their
school; the runner-up will
win $1,000 for scholarships.
High-Q begins with com
munity volunteers - many
of them from Charlotte’s
Junior League • posing
identical questions to each
of the Super Saturday
teams. The sixteen teams
with the highest scores ad
vance to the second round
February 19, in which they
each face an opposing team
for the first time. Eight
“Charlotte’s Black Neighborhoods”
Mint’s Free Side Lecture
The Mint Museum of Hi
story cordially invites the
public to a free slide lec
ture on “Charlotte’s Black
Neighborhoods” on Sun
day, February 13, at 3 p.m.
This lecture by Mr. Thom
as Hanchett, is being re
peated by popular demand.
His first lecture, January 9,
was given to a standing
room only audience.
Mr. Hanchett, who works
with the Charlotte-Meek
lenburg Historic Proper
ues commission will give
this slide talk on five
Charlotte neighborhoods,
tracing- changes in this
city’s black residential pat
terns over the last ISO
years. The neighborhoods
to be examined will be
First and Second Wards in
the Center City, BidcDeville
near Johnson C. Smith Uni
versity, Cherry next to
Myers Park, and Washing
ton Heights near Northwest
Junior High. These neigh
borhoods Illustrate and the
lecture will address the
many changes from
slavery days before the
Civil War, through the era
of Mack capitalism in the
1910s, to the communities
of the present.
Mr. Hanchett is current
ly the director of the
Charlotte Neighborhood
Survey, a three-year pro
ject that is cataloging
Charlotte’s architectural
and historic resources
throughout the city. Mr.
Hanchett holds a Bachelors
Degree in History from
Cornell University and is
completing a Master’s
Degree from the Univers
ity of Chicago.
Come and share your
memories of Charlotte’s
black neighborhoods.
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teams emerge to compete
in seven televised matches
broadcast by WBTV on
consecutive Sundays - Fe
bruary 27 - April 10th.
High-Q is a race against
the clock as well as against
opposing teams, with con
testants rushing to sound
their buzzers - sometimes
before all of a question has
been read - to earn a
I 1
chance to answer and field
a bonus question.
Hie contest is modeled
after “College Bowl,” with
questions supplied by
“Reader’s Digest.”
Contestants try out for
their teams in early fall
and spend from then until
February studying current
events, sports, history, sci
_ence, the Bible, music,
politics, geography and
more.
Last year Statesville
High School won over East
Lincoln of Denver, NC in
the championship.
Teachers coaching High
Q teams praise the con
test as one that encourages
scholarship and upholds
the image of area public
schools. _