The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Volume XVI, Number 15
Charlotte, North Carolina
Monday, September 22, 1980
NCNB Honors
Smith; Jolly
By Kevin Lyons
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
The 13th annual North Carolina
National Bank Awards for Teaching
Excellence was held Friday in the
Cone Center, and Dr. Stephen Jolly,
Assistant Professor of Accounting
and Vera Smith, Professor of Nurs
ing, were presented with plaques and
cash awards.
Dr. Jolly, who holds a B.S.B.A. and
a Ph.D. from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, has taught at
UNCC for the past five years. His
courses include intermediate accoun
ting II and advanced accounting. Dr.
Jolly said, “I feel very honored,” and
he praised his students for their hard
work and for “making teaching a lot
easier.”
Mrs. Smith holds a B.S. from Seton
Hall University in New Jersey, A
M.A. from the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has a
R.N. from Central Islip State
Hospital in New York. She has been a
member of the UNCC nursing staff
since 1967.
Mrs. Smith said, “I feel very flat
tered, and I owe this all to my
students—they always meet my ex
pectations, and that’s what
teaching’s all about.”
The evening began with a wine and
buffet reception, which was followed
by the awards program. After the
program, the Loonis McGlohon Or
chestra preformed for anyone who
wished to dance.
Presiding for the introduction to
the ceremony were Dr. Anne Royall
Newman and Dr. Boyd H. Davis. The
welcoming speech was delivered by
Hugh McColl Jr., President of
NCNB.
Following the McColl speech, three
past recipients of the award made
comments about the award and about
UNCC. The first person to receive
the award, Seth H. Ellis, who won in
1968, noted the tremendous growth
rate UNCC has had, and reflected on
how small Charlotte College had been
when he first came here to teach.
Photo By Kevin Lyons
L-R.Vera Smith; NCNB President Hugh McColl, Jr.; and Dr. Stephen Jolly
Chancellor Fretwell then delivered
a speech and began introducing the
award winners. The awards were
then presented to Dr. Jolly and Mrs.
Smith by McColl.
The NCNB Awards date back to
1968, when the literary magazine
staff proposed the idea of a yearly
award for outstanding teachers. A.
committee was formed to study the
idea, and a recommendation was
made to the chancellor. The
chancellor liked the idea and
presented it to the chairman of the
NCNB board. NCNB agreed to pro
vide UNCC with grants to cover the
cost of the cash awards, the entertain
ment and the refreshments for the
evening.
Nominations for the awards are
usually taken in the spring, and
nominations can be made by
students, alumni, fellow faculty
members or administrators. A com
mittee then carefully screens each let
ter of recommendation and then
decides on the eventual winner.
United Way
Campus To Raise $18,250
Inside .
A campus wide effort is being made
to raise $18,250 for the United Way
this year. Students are working to
raise $4,949.49 of this sum.
According to Frank Joseph, Direc
tor of Commuter Life and Leadership
Development, this is the most money
a student organization has ever tried
to raise.
Last year the university raised ap
proximately $15,000 and the students
raised $1,000 of this amount. This
was a 500 percent increase by the
students.
Students have planned several
ways to raise the money this year. A
dance-a-thon will begin at 4 p.m. this
Friday and end Saturday at 4 p.m. It
will be held in the Rathskeller. Ap
proximately 20-30 couples have been
entered by different campus clubs
and organizations. If your group
would like to enter a couple go by the
Dean of Students Office.
On September 29 the Miner’s
Daughter is donating $.25 of every
beer and $.50 of every mixed drink
bought, to the United Way.
Starting Monday and continuing
through Thursday a sales campaign
begins. UNCC coolers, decals, sta
tionary, tie tacs, and paper weights
w dl be sold.
The United Way helps support the Cross, Florence Crittenton services,
Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Red the YWCA and the YMCA.
College of Nursing
Fourth In State
By Chip Wilson
Carolina Journal Staff Writer
The UNCC College of Nursing fell
into fourth place on a listing of
schools having the greatest percen
tages of graduates passing the licens
ing exam to become registered nur
ses.
The Raleigh News and Observer re
ported that 46 out of 57, or 80.7 per
cent, of UNCC graduates who took
the test, passed.
The fourth place ranking, while sig
nificant, was a drop from results of a
1979 test, when UNCC graduates
ranked second, according to Asso
ciate Dean of Nursing Sally Nicolson.
Nicolson said the average score of
students who did pass the test rose,
however.
The licensing exam is a five-part
test covering medical, surgical, pedia
tric obstetric and psychiatric nursing.
Each candidate must make a
minimum score of 350 on each sec
tion.
The 80-percent ranking on the N.C.
test is not complete, Nicolson said.
“We have other students who took
the nursing test in states where they
will actually practice, so we don’t
have the figures on how well they
did.”
Other N.C. nursing programs
rating higher than UNCC were UNC-
Greensboro, UNC-Chapel Hill and
Atlantic Christian College in Wilson.
All of the Graduates of the two-year
Associate Degree program at the Col
lege of Albemarle in Elizabeth City
passed the same test, but were not
rated along with schools giving
Baccalaureate degrees.
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