CHAEOTTE
COLLEGIAN
Vol. 2 No. 3
CHARLOTTE COLLEGE, CHARLOTTE, N. C.
December 13, 1950
CHRISIMAS DANCE SET FOR SATURDAY NIGHT
CC REPRESENTED AT LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY
Delegation Sent To
Raleigh Assembly
A delegation of six Charlotte
College students represented the
College at the fourteenth session
of the Student Legislative Assem
bly of North Carolina at Raleigh
on November 30 through Decem
ber 2. A member of the Charlott •
College delegation, Martin J.
Sherrill, was elected to the office
of Assistant Sergeant at Arms o
the Senate.
The CC delegation includec
Hugh Adams, Bill Senn, an
Martin Sherrill, who sat in th:
senate, ani Lewis Parham, Bii
Proctor, and Ariel Stevens, wh'
were representatives in t h i
house.
Representatives of some twen
ty-five colleges and universitie
in the State of North Carolin
met with the 1950 Student Legis
lative Assembly.
The first North Carolina St .t
Student Legislature was spon
sored by the Pi Kappa Delta,
forensic fraternity at State Col
lege. This group was an oratorica
society which convened annuallj
In 1947 the Pi Kappa Delta a
N. C. State dissolved itself an>
the Student Legislative Assem
bly. Representatives from State
Meredith, W. C. U. N. C., and
U, N. C. formed then a nucleu'
from which the present Assem
bly has resulted.
The Assembly meets in the
Capitol Building at Raleigh, the
Senate and House of Representa
tives chambers being used for
the meetings. Rules of order sim
ilar to those used by the State
Legislature have been adopted
by both houses.
Among the bills considered by
the Senate in the fourteenth As
sembly were: A Bill to Provide
Education in the Problems of
Alochol in the State of North
Carolina: A Bill to Establish
Drivers’ Education in Secondary
Schools; A Bill to Establish a
Salary Basis Instead of a Fee
Basis for Jailors’ Pay: A Bill to
Abolish the Fair Trade Laws
in North Carolina: A Resolution
Favoring the Adoption of Uni
versal Military Training; A Bill
to Provide for a Complete Geo
logical and Mineral Survey in
the State of North Carolina: A
Bill to Decentralize the Selection
of School Text Books: A Bill
to Lower the Voting Age from
twenty-one to eighteen: and A
Bill Concerning Health Affairs.
The Resolution Favoring the
Adoption of Universal Military
Training was the subject of the
most heated discussion heard in
the Senate in this year’s Assem
bly.
Bills passed by the Student
Legislative Assembly are for
warded to the State Legislature
or the National Congress accord
ing to the nature of the bill.
The opening session of the 1950
Legislative Assembly was held
on the evening of November 30.
This was a session of the In
terim Council. The joint session
of both Houses elected officers
for the coming year. Meetings of
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CC's Christmas Parade Entry
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Snow Ball
Plans Ready
The social highlight of the fall
quarter for the student body is
the Christmas Dance scheduled
for next Saturday night, Decem
ber 16. The Social Committee has
designated the dance as the
“Snow Ball” and has announced
that Dan Ramsey and his band
have been engaged to supply the
music.
The Social Committee extends
a cordial invitation to the alumni
of Charlotte College to join the
students and faculty at the dance.
The floai entered in the Chritln.as parade in Charlotle by Ihe Eludenls of Charlotle College em-
phafi’ed the "Educallon for Freedom" Iheme. Shown in the picture are: Wyatt Bell, Fleet Kirk
patrick, Bob Isaacs, Carole Hinson, Jay Sherrill, J 3 Mahalic, Brica McLaughlin, and Hugh Adams
Science Students On Field Trip
Seated cm the rear bumper of
a ’49 Chevrolet, eating a ham
sandwich (rye, heavy on the
mustard), in a grove at the foot
of Crowder Mountain, on Sun
day, November 5, at 3:30 P.M.,
Dr. Herbert Hechenbleikner con
ferred upon the students of the
botanty, geography, and geology
Classes of Charlotte College ac
tive membership in the Alpine
Mountain Climber’s Guild of
Charlotte College. Having just
de.scended Crowder, the members
of the said classes were more in
clined to think that they should
have been accorded membership
in the Charlotte College Chapter
of the Unamalgamated Interna
tional Mountain Goat’s Associa
tion (the ladies of the group be
ing admitted to the Gazelle
Auxiliary of the aforementioned
organization, naturally).
Now Crowder is just a little
mountain, as mountains go. You
can ride along Highway 74 and
see it as an oversized hill a short
distance away. It doesn’t look as
if it would be much of a job to
climb to the top. It isn’t, if you
stick to the alleged road which
goes nearly to the top. But if
you undertake the trip using Dr.
Heck’s own private trail, it’s a
horse of a different hue. If climb
ing to the third floor of the col
lege shortens the breath and
quickens the pulse, do not under
any circumstances try to follow
Dr. Heck up to the top of Crow
der—you’ll surely regret having
smoked that last couple of cartons
of cigarettes. Or if looking out
the library window causes the
head to swim, do not (repeat,
not) try to cross the rocky ledge
near the top of Hechenbleikner
Trail: you’ll find that you are
having another one of your dizzy
spells. Or you may do as we
did—wait until the others are
out of sight, get down on all
fours, and coon across. It’s really
amazing how affectionate you can
get with a rock—metamorphos
ed, frost-wedged, weathered, and
lichen-covered though it be—if
it’s what is keeping you froin
dropping 75 feet into a covey of
post oaks.
If you noticed that on Monday,
November 6, the students enter
ing and leaving Room 309 were
able to do so only with many a
limp, dragging foot, and stifled
groan, we can assure you that it
was not the result of civil strife,
shipwreck, mob violence, or too
big a week end; the particular
gait with which they walked that
day is known in medical par
lance as “Crowder Creep” and
usually results, as it did in this
case, from going on field trips
to Crowder Mountain.
This particular field trip got
under way at the college on Sun
day, November 5. Having good
nerves, paid up insurance prem
iums, and a foolhardy disregard
for life and limb, the science stu
dents of the college embarked in
automobiles driven by Harry
Booker, Brice McLaughlin, Hugh
Adams, and Bill Senn. To their
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The Staff Of The COLLEGIAN Extends
To The Students, Faculty, And Friends
Of Charlotte College
Heartiest Wishes
For A
Merry Christmas
And Happy New Year
Bell Singers
Score Hit
The Southern Bell Choral club
which was presented at the No
vember 17 assembly program was
well received by the student
body. The group presented a
program of semi-classical favor
ites, including several selections
from light opera.
The program, which was ar
ranged by Charles Gamble and
his assembly committee, began
with a brief informal talk by
Mrs. Blanche McManus, division
personnel supervisor for South
ern Bell. Mrs. McManus outlined
the history of the choral group,
now in its seventh year.
The singers are under the di
rection of Mr. Dan O. White,
who is beginning his third year
as the director of the club. Mrs.
Dorothy Griffin is the accompan
ist of the group.
At the assembly program, Miss
Beverly Atwood, soprano, was
presented as soloist. Miss At
wood’s selections were enthusi
astically received by the audi
ence, the largest to attend a
student assembly so far this year.
Sorority And
Fraternity
Activities
The Keymen have ten active
members at C. C. this year. They
are Hugh Adams, David Cash,
Jack Proctor, Walter Ross, Jack
Nesbit, Harold Carter, Bob
Isaacs, Bill Rimmer, Bob Lind
say, and Bud Walker. Walter
Ross is president: Jack Nesbit,
vice-president; and Bill Rimmer
is secretary-treasurer. Dr. Hech
enbleikner is adviser. These frats
are a very active bunch. They
are going to raffle three fifteen
pound turkeys at the C. C. Christ
mas dance, Dec. 16. The proceeds
are to be used to establish a
scholarship fund. In addition to
this project, they find time to
party. For instance, they had a
fish fry at Maynard’s Lake
December 2, and they’re plan
ning a stag party December 31! !
The Regina sorority is at last
getting started again. At the first
meeting held the latter part of
November the girls decided to
donate the sorority funds, at pres
ent, to the school to help pur
chase a ladle for the punch bowl.
This organization is open to all
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