THE CHARLOTTE COLLEGIAN
DECEMBER 13, 1956
The Charlotte Collegian
Vol. 8, No. 4
Published by the Sudents of Charlotte Collefie
Charlotte, North Cai'olina
$2.50 per year
Hob Butler and Kill Drinkard
Merle Tayloi
Bill Waftnei
Tom Huskins
(Jay Hinson
Ray Phillip;-'
Ann McKorie
Loretta Young
Claude Herndon
Charles Couch, (ius Deal,
Roger C. (iibson, Shirley Hargett,
Jerry Owens, Larry Odum, and .Judith Mauldwin
Faculty Adviser - Miss Mary Denny
SCHOOL SPIRIT?
“Is there any school spirit at Charlotte Collene? Is there
any particular spirit which binds the students together?” This
is the question, or questions, which more tlian one student at
Charlotte College has been asking himself and other people.
These are good questions too, and the second year students
should not be taken aback by this element of curiosity on the
part of some of the new arrivals at Charlotte College.
What does Charlotte College offer in the way of school spirit?
Is there a football team to cheer for on Saturdays? Aside from
basketball, what can C. C. offer to those who are drawn to their
school through its athletic program? Where is the fraternity
and sorority with their spirit of brotherhood and welding to
gether of human ties? Wheie is the spirit of lasting friend
ship which is won through the living together of a group of
people in the same dormitory? These are the arguments which
go with the (juestion, “What sort of school spirit -and how this
school spirit?”
Should we dismiss the thought of a type of school spirit and
say that C. C. is only a group of students who attend afternoon
and evening classes in Central High School? No! The question
should not be dismissed, nor should anyone feel guilty in asking
it. All young people look to college with different attitudes
and anxieties. To the college freshman, college is another world;
a world of fear, and yet, a world of exhilarating joy. Through
high school, and before, he has anxiously awaited the time when
he would have the opportunity to achieve the higher education
waiting for him at college. College, and all that it entails,
brings the individual to one of the real high points in his life.
Therefore, it is no wonder that young people place much em
phasis on college, and are heartily disappointed when college
fails to measure up to all that they have heard and expected
from it.
This w'ould bring us back to the starting point of this article;
some students are disappointed by the lack of a spirit at Char
lotte College. A spirit which is deep and one which will bring
us to the stiition of understanding and realizing our worth and
dignity. We must seek this spirit in a world, dark with power-
mad conquesting persons who have reverted to base animal in
stincts which are drawing out the dignity of the glory which
was designed to be man’s.
The students of Charlotte College do not attend a group of
buildings in which they struggle to absorb the wisdom of the
ages. They are questing one of the greatest things man has the
ability to do—developing his mind. In developing the mind, we
are constantly creating and seeking the truth. The truth which
shall make man free. We are free when we can think for our
selves and be hai>py in life by doing that which brings us the
highest satisfaction of living a life well and worthwhile. We
are laboi'ing to meet our desii’es in life, and though we are all
individuals; we seek to find the best and surest expressions of
our individualisms.
We are at the present a minority. The select who can act on
our nature of free will to make mankind higher and richer to
the fullness of life. Because of this we are bound together as
giving testimony of the right to think, seek, find, and experience
a life of democracy. This atmosphere rests over us as the guid
ing cloud of smoke over the Children of Israel.
We are bound together with a spirit deeper than a schedule of
football games, row of fraternity houses, or part of a spacious
campus lined with dormitories. Our school spirit is a spirit of
expectancy, as the world looks to us in hopes of saving a civiliza
tion which could destroy itself in a matter of hours. However,
this spirit is more than a spirit of expectancy; the spirit which
is ours to command is a spirit of creating. Creating in a period
of destruction, not only of cities and the bodies of people, but
of the inner man himself. It is impossible to kill the love of
freedom in an individual, unless the dignity and worth of mim
(as the highest of creation) is destroyed.
In the hands of our generation lies the hope of salvation from
the impending damnation of the death of man’s dignity and
worth. This is tense atmosphere which prevails as we seek a
higher education. We cannot fail to catch the situation a^
develop our perspective which will not only give us a college
education, but which will also show to us the weapon to destroy
this enemy which threatens mankind. This is our school spirit—
the preservation of man’s dignity. This is the spirit which can
invade our beings and give to us the spark that binds us together
in laboring to develop our minds—that we may develop ^
integrity that will save our human race and the world we live
in.
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CHRISTMAS
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he had a wife from the daughters
of Aaron, and her name was Eliza
beth. Now as he was acting as
priest in the assignment of his di
vision before God . . . To him Je
hovah’s angel apjjeared, . . . the
angel said to him; ‘. . . your wife
Elizalieth will be the mother of a
son to you, and you are to call his
name John.’ . . . after these days
Elizabeth his wife became preg
nant.” According to I Chronicles
;^4:1U, 18, the division of Abijah
was the eighth of twenty-four
courses of service for the priests.
The second week of the eighth
would fall in the early part of July,
our calendar. Hench, John was con
ceived in early July.
Luke 1:26-39 states; “In her
Elizabeth’s sixth month the angel
Gabriel was sent forth from God to
a city of Galilee named Nazareth,
to a virgin promised in marriage
to a man named Joseph of David’s
bouse; and the name of the virgin
was Mary . . . the angel said to her;
‘Holy spirit will come upon you, and
power of the Most High will over
shadow you. For that I'eason also
what is born will be called holy,
God’s Son. And, look! Elizabeth
your relative has also herself con
ceived a son, in her old age, and
this is the sixth month for her.’ ”
Therefore, Mary conceived during
the sixth month for Elizabeth, or,
in other words, early January. The
Messiah would thus be born in early
October. (Luke3;l-3.)
If Christ was not born on Decem
ber 25, then why is His birth cele
brated on that date ?
“Christmas was not among the
earliest festivals of the Church.
Irenaeus and Tertullian omit it
fj'om their lists of feasts . . . The
well-known solar feast, however, of
Natalis Invicti, celebrated on 25
December, has a strong claim on
the responsibility for our December
date . . . Pagan customs centering
around the January calends gravi
tated to Christmas.”—The Catholic
Encyclopedia.
Some authorities state that the
December 25 date was selected in
order to facilitate the conversion of
heathen people to Christianity. On
or about December 25 the ancient
Romans celebrated the Saturnalia,
or the rebirth of the winter sun,
unconquered by winter. Historians
know that the earliest Christians
would have nothing to do with any
of the pagan festivals. E. G. Hardy
in Christianity and the Roman Gov
ernment talks about the “absolute
refusal of the Christians to join in
any religious festival” or “to il
luminate their doors at festivals.”
Further, in describing the Saturn
alia, the New Funk & Wagnalls
Encyclopedia comments: “During
the Saturnalia the courts and
schools were closed, and military
operations were suspended so that
the army might celebrate. It was
a period of good will and jollity,
devoted to banquets, the exchange
of visits, and the giving of pres
ents . . . Much of the traditional
merry making of the Christmas
season seems to have developed
from the earlier pagan festival.”
GEOI.OGY FIELD TRI1>
(Continued from page 1)
tions. Worley’s Cave near Bluff
City, Tennessee, was the cave that
the class explored. Leaving the
bright sunlight of day, the ex
plorers ventured into the cave. The
intensity of the darkness that pre
vailed in the cave after leaving
the sunlit entrance was impressive.
Artificial lighting helped the stu
dents to see the formations that
from the
night owl
GIRLS! HERE’S YOUR
CHANCE! ! ! An opportunity for
a date of a lifetime! A date to
"DREAM,” Saturday night, De
cember 15. This note is authentic
and the writer says he is serious
about it! There’s only one catch!
I am (for safety reasons) under
oath not to reveal his last name.
Nevertheless, I’ve scoured the rec
ords and herewith divulge the list
of possibilities. (IMPORTANT
CLUP^S: 1. The author’s name is
on the list. 2. He is notoriously
famed at C. C. 3. He declares he
is on the level.) Sooo, Good Luck to
you! Too bad I’m engaged for the
evening or I might even have taken
him up! MMMMM, haven’t I read
somewhere of people having two
dates in one evening? ? ? ? Oh,
yes! It was in the obituary column
THE LETTER:
Dear Girls,
I shall pick you all up in front
of the Charlotte Hotel at precisely
8:00 P. M. on the date indicated.
Please be punctual!
Your Everloving Lover Boy,
Bill.
BUT WHICH ONE?
Bill Barron, Bill Bonderant, Bill
Disher, Bill Drinkard, Bill Elichost,
Bill P’reeman, Bill Galloway, Bill
Gordon, Bill Hallas, Bill Henson,
Bill Hill, Bill Hoyle, Bill Hudspeth,
Bill James, Bill Johnston, Bill Ken
drick, Bill Lemmond, Bill McMil-
lian. Bill Mill, Bill Miller, Bill
Moser, Bill Newland, Bill K. Poole,
Bill D. Poole, Bill Shields, Bill
Smith, Bill Stewart, Bill Reid, Bill
Trimble, or Bill Wagner.
CC Bulletin Board
Belated Congratulations:
To PHIL SWARINGEN and CAR
OLYN TARTE on their recent
marriage.
Congratulations:
To DAVID E. RUSSELL and JOY
HOPE CALDWELL who were
married the first of this month.
The Staff . . .
joins with the Student Body in
extending their deepest sympathy
to TENNANT N. McLEOD on the
death of his father, ARCHIE E.
McLEOD.
have taken hundreds and thous
ands of years to form. Small and
large stalactites hanging from the
top of the cave; small and large
stalagmites rising up from the
floor of the cave; rimstone around
vacated pools of water and around
pools of water; thin drapery forma
tions hanging from the top of the
cave; and huge columns (formed
when stalactites and stalagmites
extend and join) brought the stu
dents nearer to the material that
they had been studying in class.
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Clubs For You
By Gay Hinson
Welcome to the club! Here’s
hoping you found one to suit you.
The first meeting of the Spanish
Club was held Saturday night, De
cember 1st, at the home of Mrs.
Hoyle. The meeting was centered
around the Spanish Christmas cus
toms. Quite a few of the Spanish
students and guests (including a
lovely blond, a darling redhead,
and Dot McAllister’s fabulous hus
band) attended. Bill Reid translated
several stories, to the amusement
of Marco Perez, after reading them
first in Spanish. The breaking of
the pinata was completed in full
tradition. The pinata was made by
Betti King, who could make a huge
fortune in this business. It took
Charles Furman’s powerful right
to finally break it. Man, you should
have seen those Spanish students
scramble after everything from
kisses (candy, that is) to checkers.
Refreshments were sei’ved by Sen-
oritas King, Foster, McRorie, and
Fisher. Note to Mrs. Hoyle—Sand
wiches and punch were delicious.
The social was brought to a close
with the singing of Christmas
Carols, in Spanish, of course. All
Spanish students, either taking
Spanish or have taken Spanish, are
invited to join. Note to those in at
tendance—Why not put on a “Gun-
smoke” play in Spanish starring
Johnny Craig as Mat Dillon and
Vickie Eagle as Doc.
The Sigma Lambda Chi members
have been launching a paper drive
under the direction of Ronnie
Watts. Hope you reached your goal,
boys. (They won’t tell me any
thing else.—Sigh!)
Elementary organization for an
Electronics Club is underway at
Charlotte College. Setting up elec
tronic equipment for next quar
ter’s electronics class is being ac
complished by the club. This or
ganization is a good one and is
headed by a couple of swell guys.
Tommy Reddeck and Bill Moser.
All students interested in this phase
of physics are invited to join.
“The United States’ Nuclear
Policy” was discussed by the mem
bers of the Discussion Club held
Friday, November 30th. The club
added two new members at this
meeting. Jack Moore acted as mod
erator. The panel—Bobbie Butler,
Guilford Furr, Tom Huskins, Har
old Kellams, Judy Spurrier, and
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