The Charlotte Collegian
With C. C. News And Features — Bi - Weekly
Volume X
Friday, October 3, 1958
No. 2
Attend Convocation
Rowe Speaks Of Need For
Community College System
MEMBERS of the Community College Hoard of Trustees who attend-
assembly of the year pose with
Wilson for the Collegian’s camera.
McCrae, Dr. Beaty, Mr. Atkins,
Dr. Watkins.—(Collegian I’hoto—
ed Charlotte College's first general
guest speaker Rev. Mr. K. B.
Left to right are Mr. Taylor, Mr.
Rev. Mr. Wilson, Mr. Rowe, and
Staff.)
Alumnus Advises Students
On Qualities For Success
BY GERALDINE LOVELESS
Collegian Reporter
Personal initiative, personal integrity, and personal en
thusiasm are keys to success in college work as well as in
life work, the Rev. Kenneth B. Wilson told a convocation of
Charlotte College students in the auditorium the evening of
September 24.
With these qualities, the speaker
said, the student can master his
academic work and have an excel
lent chance for mastering his life
work.
He asked the students not to
worry if they are unable for the
moment to make the decisions that
a life work will demand of them.
If they have the qualities he out
lined, the decisions will be the cor
rect ones.
J. Murrey Atkins, chairman of
the Board of Trustees of the Char
lotte Community College system,
presided. The invocation was by
Dr. E. A. Beaty, professor of clas
sical languages at Davidson Col-
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State Board
Reconfimends
25c Increase
Miss Bonnie Cone, Charlotte Col-
ege director, appeared before the
North Carolina State Board of
Higher Education Monday, Septem-
oer 15, for the purpose of hearing
-he board’s recommendation re
garding the college’s budget. All
■olleges under the board’s jurisdic-
Jon were represented at this meet-
-g.
The Board recommended that the
perating fund be increased from
iree dollars to three dollars and
wenty-five cents per quarter hour
redit per student. If this measure
s approved by the Advisory Bud
get Commission and subsequently
y the legislature, it will mean an
■ncrease of about $,000 in operat-
iicrease in operating expenses in
terms of last year’s figures.
A request for capital funds was
postponed by the board until it is
possible to draw up a ten-year
budget for all state-supported in
stitutions and issue bonds for the
purpose of supporting the program.
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Trustee Calls College
"...A Baby Giant..."
BY BOB ROBERTSON
Collegian Reporter
On September 15, 1958, Mr. Oliver R. Rowe, member of
the Charlotte College Board of Trustees and executive at
R. H. Bouligny Co., told the North Charlotte Rotary Club that
there can be no greater material investment for any section
of our state, or any state, than the investment which it
makes in the rapid development of its community college
system.
In a speech which is indicative of
the fervor and spirit with which the
newly appointed Board of Trustees
has accepted its charge, Mr. Rowe
stated further that such an invest
ment “is not the kind of expendi
ture that adds to our long range
tax burden. It is that one-in-a-
Ihou.sand type of thing that makes
money for the community and for
the state.”
Mr. Rowe, who with Mr. Sheldon
Smith recently made a trip to Cali
fornia where they visited many
cities and community colleges with
the express purpose of investigat
ing their community college pro
grams, pointed out that the Char
lotte College program has truly
been a community movement. He
said further that in spite of many
obstacles Charlotte College has
grown, and that the need alone
for it in this community has been
the cause of its successful growth.
In emphasizing the need for
Charlotte College and the flower
ing community college system, Mr.
Rowe backed up his statements
with facts and figures. An example
is the fact that “if you draw a
seventy-five-mile radius around
Charlotte, you will encompass more
people than an equal circle any
where in the South or Southwest.”
Enumerating other figures, Mr.
Rowe stated that “24 per cent of
all white high school graduates in
North Carolina live within fifty
miles of Charlotte,” while the near
est state supported educational in
stitutions are from one hundred to
one hundred fifty miles from Char
lotte—all dormitory type schools
which cost from $1,500 to $2,000
per year.
In qualifying the role of the com
munity college, Mr. Rowe stated
categorically that the job of a
community college is peculiar to
itself, and that in no sense is Char
lotte College competitive with the
boarding institutions of the state.
He told club members that “seven
ty percent of the C. C. students
work part time to pay for their
living, and they are serious—they
mean business.”
Referring to scholastic standards
at the school, Mr. Rowe noted that
in the last year C. C. has been ac
credited by the Southern Associa
tion of Colleges and Secondary
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C. C. Convenes In Assembly As Year Gets Under Way
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MR. J. MURREY .\TKINS (left) presides over Charlotte College's first general convocation of the current year as the Collegian's sweepsight camera scans stage and
audience. Mr. Atkins is chairman of the College .\dvisory Board and the Board of Trustees.—(Collegian Sweepsight Photo—Staff).