The Charlotte Collegian
Official Charlotte College Student Publication
Volume 16, Number 1 CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA September 18, 1961
Gov. Sanford Will Address
Dedication Ceremony Oct. 15
Miss Cone
Is Named
President
Education Director
Assumes I\eiv Role
By CHRIS COLLINS
Collegian Editor
Thursday, July 13, was a
big day for Char'otte College
and for Miss Bonnie E. Cone
In fact, it was a very srec'ai
occasion when the Charlotte
Commii'’it" ToUe^e Board con
ferred the title of president upon
the devoted little lady with a
tremendous amount of energy
who h"s served equally well the
capacities of general superin
tendent, “knuckle and nail” lab
orer, and guardian angel for
Charlotte College since 1946.
To quote from a Charlotte Ob
server account of the recent
honor, “President,” for Mis'
Cone, “is a title earned by man-
years of i^iaginative and dedi
cated work.”
Oliver Rowe, finance chair
man for the Board of Trustees
who kissed Miss Cone on the
cheek after the ceremony, said.
•'If it hadn’t been for her en
thusiasm and determination dur
ing her 'ifteen years at Char
lotte Colleffe th° cchnol wouldn’t
be where it is today.”
Then he added, “Maybe it
wouldn’t even be, because Miss
Cone ket)t it running on a shoe
string where others might hpe
thrown up their hands and quit.”
Presitferit Cone is not just
Charlotte College minded; she
is college education minded.
Because she is college ed'’ci-
tion minded, Charlotte College
is rapidly beccming one of the
f"-t st growing schools in the
state.
When she snoke to the Opti
mist Club in Wadesboro on Au-
gi st 3, she said, “You have a
stake in Charlotte College, too.”
President Cone went on to show
that Charlotte College will bene
fit Anson and Mecklenburg coun
ties. She pointed out that if onl'-
50 students from Anson County
would receive higher education,
the percentage would increase
from 30 in 1958 to fiO in 1961 and
save parents $50,000.
In March, before she became
president. Miss Cone got the
st^te Joint Anpropriations Com
mittee to approve the purchase
of furniture for Carver and Char
lotte colleges through the state
Office of Purchasing and Con
tracting to save taxpayers 30 per
cent on movable furniture, libra
ry, and lab equipment.
These were the sort of
tWngs that are tvpical of the
reasons Miss Cone became
president of Charlotte College,
and why, as president, her
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President Bonnie E. Cone Inspects New Campus
Home Of Our Own At Last,
But Only After Much Work
The dream for Charlotte Col
lege to have a home of its own
has at last become a reality.
The first two buildings of the
new 267-acre Charlotte College
campus located off Highway 49,
northeast of Charlotte, eight
miles from the heart of town,
were completed this month.
“It is really great to be on
our own campus in our own
buildings. After working for 15
years in borrowed quarters, it
is thrilling to welcome this stu
dent body to the new home of
Charlotte College,” Dr. Bonnie
E. Cone, President of the college,
said.
“This represents the fulfill
ment of a dream long held by
many of us, a vis’on trans
formed and realized through
years of planning, patience,
frustration and an enormous
amount of work,” Harvey
Woodruff, CO choir director,
commented.
On Sept. 7, the college board
of trustees and other officials
made a last inspection of the
“first phase construction pro
gram.”
The group moved slowly from
the basement to the roof of the
engineering building and through
every nook and cranny of the
liberal arts building. Since every
thing was in order on this in
spection (which lasted a full
day) the buildings at last be
came the property of Charlotte
College.
CC began mov'ng into its
new buildings on Sept. 8. The
move came just 15 vears after
the birth of the college.
In 1946 the University of North
Carolina established a “Charlotte
Center” in the old Central High
School building on Elizabeth
Avenue. The center’s offices
were at that time in the hall of
Central High School and sup
planted the lost and found de
partment.
It served as an emergency
school to help ease the overflow
of other state-supported schools
caused by the war. In 1949 offi
cials decided to close the school
since the emergency was over.
From that time the school was
supported by the Charlotte school
board until three years ago when
state funds were again made
available. Until 1957 all classes
were held at night, since the
college did not have a home of
its own.
The college is today housed
in its own $1.2 million plant on
its its own campus — in facili
ties which reflect its true value
of the Charlotte community.
The first two completed build
ings, Liberal Arts and Science-
Engineering, temporarily will also
house the administrative offices,
the library, a student lounge,
snack bar and bookstore.
The next two buildings to be
constructed are the library and
the college union. Plans are be
ing considered now for these
and it is andticipated that the
buildings will be ready for use
by the fall of 1962.
The student capacity of CC’s
^ two new buildings and that oi
additional buildings which are
already well into the planning
stage are believed to be equal
to present needs and the ex
pected needs of the near future.
This estimate is made, however,
' at a time when the student body
I shows signs of rapid growth,
j Enrollment in the fall o' 1960
'was 697, the total summer en-
"o'lment in 1961 reached 601 and
the enrollment for the 1961 fall
semester, beginning on Sept. 20
is expected to reach 1000. Long-
range expectations point to an
enrollment of 4000 students by
1968.
Other N.C.
Officials
To Attend
Program Includes
Open House Event
By JEANNIE STRATHDEE
Collegian Managing Editor
North Carolina Governor
Terry Sanford will address a
special dedication service at
Charlotte College on Sunday,
Oct. 15, it was announced to
day by Dr. Bonnie E. Cone,
President of the college.
The dedicatory ceremony, will
be held at 4:30 p.m. on the col
lege campus, located just off
Highway 4"
north, with J
Murrey Atkin'
ch'iirman of th'
co'lege’s Boarf
of Trustees, pre
siding.
“We have an
ticipated this oc
casion for f
long years,’'
said Dr. Cone
“and we fee'
very honored Sanford
that Gov. Sanford and other
educational and business leaders
will share this happy occasion
with us.”
Major L. P. McLendon, chair
man of the North Carolina Board
of Higher Education, will intro
duce Gov. Sanford, and Addison
Reese, chairman of the college’s
buildings and grounds commit
tee, will recognize the platform
guests.
Bishop Herbert Spaugh, chair
man of the Charlotte-Mecklen-
burg Board of Education, will
give the benediction. Dr. George
Hea'on, Charlotte industrial re
lations consultant, will give the
dedicatory prayer. W. H. B. Cor-
key, teacher of philosophy and
religion at the college, will give
the invocation.
Charlotte College Chorus mem
bers, with invited alumni, will
give a musical program for the
dedication.
After the ceremony, the college
will hold an open house. The
public is invited to both the
dedication service and the open
house. Dr. Cone pointed out.
Among guests of honor who are
expected to attend the dedication
are: A. G. Odell, Charlotte archi
tect and designer of the college
buildings; Dr. Dallas Herring of
fhe State Board of Higher Educa
tion; Syd Y. McAden, chairman
of the Mecklenburg County Board
of Commissioners; Dr. A. Ho’lis
Edens, executive director of the
Mary Reynolds Babcock Foun
dation; and Charles A. Dana,
New Yrrk businessman and
philanthropist.
Two buildings of the massive
construction program have been
completed, and two more are
hoped to be comoleted in time
for use by September, 1962.