The Charlotte Collegian
—-—Official Charlotte College Student Publication
Volume 16, Number 2 CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA October, 1961
Freslmiaii Class
Election Planned
For Oct. 23-27
Charlotte College’s freshman class officers and repre
sentatives will be nominated at an election to be held Oct.
23 through Oct. 27. |
First Flag
Dedication
Is Big Event
By CHRIS COLLINS
Dedication of the first flag for
Charlotte College was held at 11
a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 20.
Classes were dismissed at
10:50 to allow students and
faculty members time t o as
semble on the walks northwest
of the liberal arts building.
The flagpole had been placed
between the two walks a few
days earlier. The location a 1-
lowed the participants to use
the walk farthest north as a
“stage’’ and the audience t o
stand on the other walk and face
the participants with the flag
pole in the foreground.
The gathering not only was
the first to salute CC’s first
flag, it was the first assembly
of the CC student body on the
new canipus.
It was a day of “firsts” i n
other ways as speaker for the oc
casion, Charles J. Henderson,
son of federal district Judge
David E. Henderson of Charlotte,
emphasized, pointing out that
Charlotte College is first to lead
in higher education for this area.
“We are in the midst of a his
torical area,” said Mr. Hender
son. “Just up the road is Sugaw
Creek Presbyterian Church —
older than our nation. The peo
ple who settled this area played
an important part in the begin
ning of our country. The Meck
lenburg Declaration of Independ
ence was drawn up before the
American Declaration.
“It is therefore appropriate
that Charlotte College begin in
this area to pave the way for
higher education for the peo
ple of Mecklenburg and s u r-
rounding counties.
“The United States is the fin
est, best, richest, most produc
tive country of the world. Our
flag is that symbol to the world.
“Because our country is pro
ductive and growing, I had to
swap the flag that had been
bought in 1959 for Charlotte Col
lege for a flag that has not 48
but 50 stars.”
Mr. Henderson ended with,
“Let us respect our country the
way that our forefathers, who
walked these grounds, respected
our country.”
The flag that Mr. Henderson
“had to swap” was purchased in
1959 by the Woodman of the
World after Judge D. E. Hender
son had “dropped the idea” in
April that the WOW donate the
flag for CC’s campus. The WOW
followed through, purchasing the
flagpole and the flag.
See FIRST, Page 3, Col. 2
Any freshman can be nomin
ated, but he cannot be eligible
for candidacy of any office of the
freshman class unless, at the
time of election and during ten
ure of office, he takes a mini
mum of three college - level
courses and maintains a C-av-
erage.
Nominations are to be made
for the freshman class offices
of president, vice-president,
secretary, treasurer, and eight
representatives are elected for
repreeentatives are elected tor
a year.
Names of nominees cannot be
placed on the elections ballot un
til the nominees are approved
(grade-wise) by the college reg
istrar.
Nominees’ names will be post
ed on the bulletin boards on the
first floor of the liberal arts
building and the second floor
of the Science building on Mon
day, Oct. 30.
Candidates for office will
have the week of Oct. 30 to
campaign before elections are
held on Nov. 6.
The polls for nominations and
votes will be set up in the
lounge in the liberal arts build
ing. They will be open each day
of the nominations and each day
of the voting from 11 a.m. until
9:30 p.m.
Run-offs will be held Thurs
day, Nov. 9.
Procedure for nominating is
this: Pick up a nominations form
at the polls in the lounge. Write
in the name of the person whom
you wish to nominate for each
office. Have the nominee sign,
and you drop the paper into the
ballot box.
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School Colors
And Mascot
Ideas Wanted
The ranid change-over of
Charlotte College from an even
ing school into primarily a day
school has aroused the idea for
a change in the mascot.
CC’s Owl was chosen in 1949
because the students thought that
the wise old bird would make
an appropriate mascot for “night
rounders” studying in the old
halls of the Central High School
building by day, the Charlotte
College building by night.
That is why, some say. that
the new CC should select a
ew mascot.
Some argue that CC should
keep the Owl because he is a
wise old bird.
The question of whether or
not to change the mascot will
be settled by a suggestion box
today and then a ballot box on
Wednesday and Thursday. The
suggestion box was placed in
See NEW, Page 3, Col. 1
Television ganford Talks
Tells Story
Of College To Big Crowd
At Dedication
Importance
Of Quality
Is Stressed
WBTV Features
Panel Of Guests
“Charlotte College is a pro
gressive school and it’s goinr
to mean more and more to the
Carolines and to education ii
the next decade,” Doug Mays,
news commentator for WBTV
said in summarizing a 30-minutc
“Face the Carolinas” show or
Thursday night, Sept. 21.
The television program fea
tured Charlotte College and its
new campus. The panel of guests
representing the school were Dr.
Bonnie Cone, President of C. C.,
and two members of the college
board of trustees: C. A, Mc-
Knight, editor of The Charlotte
Observer, and Sheldon Smith,
general manager, Charlotte di
vision Douglas Aircraft Co. Mays
interviewed the guests and films
were shown of CC students and
faculty on campus.
Charlotte College was
“started to meet an emergency
and continued as a necessity,”
said Miss Cone. “Four years
of actual planning went before
the new buildings.”
“Throughout these years it is
evident that “co-operation pre
vailed” among the CC trustees,
faculty, and students,” said
Mays.
“About 70 per cent of our stu
dents go on to institutions of
higher learning,” said Dr. Cone.
At present Charlotte College
has students from California,
New York, West Virginia, and
foreign countries. The enroll
ment has increased 400 per cera
since 1954. When the program
was filmed, enrollment for the
fall semester was 870. The en
rollment has later increased tc
914,
Mr. Smith talked of the im
portance of college to industry.
“Industry wants employees to
take new college courses for
oldsters so that they can keep
abreast with new development in
their respective fields,” said
Smith.
GOVERNOR SANFORD
Quality Education
PRESIDENT CONE
Dream Comes True
★ ★ ★
Four-Year College?
Students Can Help
By LARRY TUCKER
Governor Terry Sanford
thinks the students of Char
lotte College can have an ac
tive part in making the school
a four-year, state-supported
institution.
In an interview after his ad
dress here Sunday, the gover
nor stressed the importance of
students’ records after they
leave Charlotte College.
By doing well in other col
leges or in business, Sanford
said, students can set an ex
ample that will tend to im
prove the college’s chances
of becoming a four - year
school.
Governor Sanford gave his
views as he walked down the
steps from the portico in front
of the science building, where
he had spoken earlier to a
dedication assembly.
The governor pointed to the
fact that 70 per cent of the
graduates from Charlotte Col
lege go on to other institu
tions of higher learning and
that 50 per cent of these stu
dents do outstanding work
there.
A tight schedule limited the
governor's time. When a trus
tee of the college tried to rush
him to his patrol cars, h e
would not be rushed—he stop
ped momentarily for the short
interview. Then he was off to
the waiting car and his plane
to Raleigh.
North Carolina’s “quality ed
ucation” governor appeared
pleased with the quality of ed
ucation at Charlotte College.
Governor Terry Sanford
stressed “quality” rather than
“quantity” when he spoke at
the dedication ceremon'es of the
new Science-Engineering and
Liberal Arts buildings of Char
lotte College on October 15.
“What is important,” said the
governor, “is not merely adding
numbers, but adding a new di
mension in our program for
h'gher education, and seeking
new ideas in the educational
art.”
The governor emohasized
the fact that the system of
colleges and universities must
be based on sound founda
tions it they are to survive.
He challenged the students
and faculty as well as other
members of the community
to “lav well the foundations”
so fundamental to the growth
of the college.
“This school is destined to
become one of the greatest in
stitutions of higher learning in
the state,” the governor told the
crowd of more than 1,000.
“I hope that this new plant—
this new beginning in a new
location — this new concept of
community colleges will lend
itself to new ideas in the teach
ing art.”
The governor called “days of
resperation” those years be
tween 1949 and 1955 when the
college operated on the meager
grant of ten thousand dollars.
In paying special tribute to
Miss Bonnie Cone, President
of the college and its chief
administrator for 15 years,
Gov. Sanford said: “Our ap
preciation of Miss Bonnie
Cone goes to great depths.
When less sturdy people would
have given up, she kept the
dream alive.”
J. Murrey Atkins, chairman
of the board of trustees, pre
sided over the ceremonies and
introduced the trustees. Atkins
also introduced Maj. L. P. Mc
Lendon, chairman of the State
Board of Higher Education.
Maj. McLendon then introduced
Gov. Sanford.
Miss Cone expressed her ap-
ireciation to the faculty, trus
tees, students, and friends of
IJharlotte College for their un
tiring efforts in making “a
dream come true.”
It was Miss Cone’s big day,
and it was obvious that it was
the day she had been working
toward so diligently for fifteen
years.