Vol. 6, No. 7
C-ar'.'ite College, Charlotte, N. C.
March 31, 1955
OUR COACH
Back in early Septeml>er Miss
Cone was looking for a capable,
efficient man to accept the posi
tion as heatl basketball Coach at
C. C. The first of October rolle(l
around and Miss Cone made the
announcement that she had hired
Mr. Huffh “Buddy” Smith as cur
basketball coach.
When the boys trying out for the
team found out about Miss Cone's
selection, they were all well
pleased. Buddy is a graduate of
Central High School and Wake
Forest College. At Central Bud
was a three letter man excelling in
all three of the major sports. At
Wake Forest Coach Smith confined
his talents primarily to baseball.
After his graduation from Wake
Forest, Buddy played two years of
professional baseball in the Class
B Tri-State League.
The basketball season has drawn
to a close, and with it we should
like to pay our respects to Buddy
Smith for the terrific job he did
for us this year.
Smith took a bunch of inex
perienced boys and molded them
into one of the strongest teams in
the Junior College circuit. Buddy
worked hard to prepare his boys
for the basketball season. He made
it known to his team that he want
ed a team that hustled all the time,
and believe me that is exactly what
he had.
Not only did Coach Smith teach
a lot of good basketball, but he
also built character and good
sportsmanship. This “rookie”
Coach was certainly the idol of all
his ball players.
The person writing this article
is graduating from C. C. this year,
and will probably never play
under the direction of Coach
Smith again. There is one thing
that is for sure however; no sub
ject has been any more beneficial
to me than has this season of bas
ketball. Still there are some few
“people” in this school that don’t
think basketball has a place at
C. C. All I can say is that they
have got a long way to go.
We all say hats off to Buddy
Smith for his great effort. No mat
ter w'here you look you’ll never
find a better guy than our “Buddy.”
For his charactei- and for a job well
done, the “Charlotte Collegian”
salutes Mr. Hugh B. Smith.
MISS CONE ATTENDS
CONVENTION
During the week March 1-5 our
school director Miss Bonnie Cone,
attended the thirty-fifth annual
convention of .American Associa
tion of Junior Colleges. The Con
vention was held in the new Sher
man Hotel in Chicago, Illinois.
Miss Cone serves on the Editorial
board from the South. Their job
(one of them at least) is to put out
monthly the Junior College Jour
nal. This is just one of the many ex
tra-curricular activities in which
Miss Cone is involved.
The theme of the program was
the planning that the Junior Col
leges are doing to meet the impend
ing tidal wave of students. One
address was made in regards to
what the Junior ('clleges in
Florida were doing to meet this
problem. Also discussed at the con
vention were the very modern
school buildings that the Junior
Colleges are constructing in Cali
fornia. The speakers agreed that
if the independent colleges were
going to face the future they
would have to expand their curri
culum in order to meet the over
flow of students.
An important appeal for help
for Korean schools was also made
at the convention. A board member
had visited the schools in Korea
and brought back the information
that the Koreans feel that they are
privileged to have the chance to go
to school—even if they have to
hold classes on a creek bank. One
important need for these Koreans
is textbooks. They have a definite
shortage of textbooks. In the near
future Miss Cone and I are going
to call on you to help aid these
Korean students. Let’s all of us
start rounding up our old books
now and show the students in
Korea that we are pulling for
them in their everlasting fight to
get an education.
CONGRATULATIONS
Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Kilgo have
a new daughter. She was born
March 7.
Donnie Whitfield has a new little
sister. She was also born March 7.
THE LIGHT SIDE OF LIFE
Motorist: “Aren’t you the fellow
who sold me this car two weeks
ago?”
Salesman: “Yes sir.”
Motorist: “Well, tell me about it
ag’ain. I get so discouraged.”
Astounded teenager at the tele
phone: “Of all the crazy things!
It’s for you, Father.”
THE BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY
Every year peo))le in increasing
numbers are getting hack to nature
i)y visiting our national parks,
those outstanding areas of beauty
and interest set aside by our
government so that these spots
might be preserved and appreciated
and so that future generations
might see what the intrepid
pioneers saw before cities and
great industries developed in our
country. Recently released statis
tics by the Secretary of the In
terior reveal that a j'ecord num
ber of i>eople enjoyed the facilities
of the National Park Service in
1954.
What is the most popular of
these Park Service areas? Perhaps
you might guess the Gi'and Canyon,
that incj’edible phenomenon of na
ture; or Yellowstone, that region
of incomparable geysers and super
lative beauty; or perhaps Yosemite,
that spot considered by some the
most beautiful on earth. Hut no,
the most populai-, visited l)y 4,844,-
852, is the highway with the poetic
name, the Blue Ridge Parkway.
The Parkway, actually a beautiful
landscaped park boi-dering a high-
w’ay almost five hundred miles
long, connects the (ireat Smoky
Mountains National Park in North
Carolina and the Shenandoah Na
tional Park in Virginia.
Recently the federal government
proposed a toll be levied on the
Parkway, which caused much agi
tation and distress in the state of
North Carolina, for as you drive
across the width and breadth of
the Tar Heel state on its wonder
ful highways, nowhere will you
traverse a road on which a toll is
charged. The people of the state
are, naturally, proud of this fact
and wish it to remain so, not only
for the benefit of its own citizens
but also to make welcome the rov
ing millions who annually visit or
pass through North Carolina. The
Carolinians especially want to
make welcome the millions who
come back year after year in every
season to enjoy the beauties of
their mountains and who travel
the accessible, delightful Blue
Ridge Parkway.
This eighty-two million dollar
motorway is also a marvel of
engineering skill. Although it fol
lows the crest of the Blue Ridge
Mountains and rises to an eleva-
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