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Volume 16, Number 6
-Official Charlotte College Student Publication
CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
CC CouKcil Needs
Unity, Says New
President Holden
“More unity in the student council is the first thing we
need,” said Carol Holden, newly elected president of the
student council for the school year beginning next fall.
“I hope we can get things or
ganized soon next year so that
they will begin working well al
most from the start.”
Miss Holden was elected presi
dent in an election held at Char
lotte College March 19-20, to se
lect the executive council of the
student council for next year.
The offices of vice - president,
sscretary, and treasurer were al
so filled.
Miss Holden is an 18-year-old
mathematics major.
Though it was not mentioned
in the campaigning, one of the
major issues in the presidential
race was whether or not the
school’s first female president
should be elected.
Miss Holden’s opponent was a
young married student, Larry
Patton.
Mary Fisher, 18, took the larg
est number of votes for a single
candidate in her bid for secre
tary.
Miss Fisher is a liberal arts
major and is uncertain about
what she plans to do after being
graduated from Charlotte Col
lege.
Calvin Beckwith was elected
treasurer of the student body.
Beckwith, 20, is an electronics
major.
The raising of school spirit and
the creating of new spirit ij one
of the first things Beckwith ad
vocates. ‘‘If we could arrange
scholarships—athletic as well as
scholastic—and form a winning
basketball team, then there would
be more spirit in such things.”
said Beckwil.h.
“We should make every student
want to take part in extracurric
ular affairs—make them interest
ing.”
Beckwith is a licensed record
dealer and operates his own tele
phone delivery service.
Beth Groom
Elected New
V. President
Beth Sue Groom was elected
vice president of the student
body and Carolina blue and
white were chosen the school
colors in a second run-off elec
tion held at Charlotte College
March 29-30.
The vote was 143 for Beth
Groom and 69 for Robert An
drews.
Both candidates appealed to
the elections committee earlier
for a second run-off after “ir
regularities” were noticed in the
first run-off held March 22-23.
Andrews said the second run-off
was needed because the polls
were left unattended for some
time during the first run-off. He
also said the polls were closed
early March 23, thus keeping
some of the night students from
voting.
Carolina blue and white re
ceived 119 votes while maroon
and white got 93 votes.
CC Student
Is Candidate
A Charlotte College student
is entering politics in a big way.
R. Eugene (Gene) Horne has
filed for Mecklenburg County
Commissioner in the Democratic
primary May 26.
Horne, who is 21 years old, is
the youngest candidate for office
in the county. He said that he
had been planning to run for
two years, and that he will cam-
See HORNE, Page 4, Col. 3
One More
Honor For
Miss Cone
Local NCCJ Gives
Highest Award
By MARGARET CLAYTON
He was a young Negro who
had not finished high school,
but he had a burning desire
to be a teacher.
He came to Charlotte Col
lege when it was still at Cen
tral High School and took the
General Educational Develop
ment Tests, hoping that he
would be able to continue his
education.
The would-be college student
was nervous as he went up to
turn in his paper, but a quiet
voice calmed him down. It
was Miss Bonnie Cone, asking,
“Are you sure you have done
the best you can? Have you
checked back over your ex
amination paper carefully?”
The young man, reassured,
went back to his seat, re
checked, and corrected several
errors that might have caused
him to lose out.
Years later, this man, now
a college graduate and an ad
ministrator in school affairs,
wrote gratefully,
“Dr. Cone probably won’t
remember the day she gave
me an encouraging word,
because it was typical of
the way she treated every
body; but, if it had not been
for her, I might have lost
out for good.”
This incident is, indeed,
typical of Dr. Bonnie Cone.
Every Christmas she receives
warm, friendly messages from
former students scattered all
over the world. It is illustra
tive, also, of why Dr. Cone
has won so many awards for
her humanitarian efforts in the
past and recently won yet an
other.
On Tuosday evening, Feb.
20, 1962, she received a silver
medallion from the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews at their annual Brother
hood dinner. The honor, pre-
See ONE MORE, Page 3, Col. 1
Trustees Ask
For 4-Year
College Status
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School For
^Commuters''
Is Outlined
The kind of four-year college
outlined by the Board of Trus
tees in their report to a state
committee on March 27 called
for a college mainly for com
muters.
It was estimated that within
10 years 10,000 students would
be enrolled at Charlotte College.
About 7,500 of these would be
expected to commute.
Charlotte College will focus on
serving “one of the major indus
trial complexes of the South
east,” the report said.
The trustees recommended
that the college provide both day
and night classes all year long.
Under the four-year plan,
Charlotte College should offer,
said the rejwrt, a curriculum
including engineering, the scien
ces, liberal arts, the humani-
t i e s, business administration
and finance. The college should
offer undergraduate work and
later graduate work, the trus
tees said.
Grcle K Club
Is Organized
A new club, the Circle K club,
has been organized at Charlotte
College. Similar to the high
school Key Club, the Circle K
is a college service club spon
sored by the Mecklenburg Ki-
wanians.
Roland Blythe was elected
president; Dwight Christenbury,
secretary; Dennis Whitaker,
treasurer; and Gene Ilorne, vice-
president.
The Charlotte College Board
of Trustees asked the state Tues
day, March 27, to convert the
college to a four - year institu
tion as soon as possible. The
trustees of Wilmington College,
also a community college, also
asked for four - year status.
The Board of Trustees said
that Charlotte College should be
developed “either as a four-
year independent and tax-sup
ported institution or as another
campus of the University of
North Carolina.” They showed
no preference. The Wilmington
trustees apparently prefer to
become unit of the UNC.
The 11-member Charlotte board
is unanimous in its desire for
a four - year college but ap
peared to be divided on the best
way to accomplish this.
Board Chairman J. Murrey
Atkins said different individuals
on the board of trustees favored
each of the alternatives, al
though, not unalterably.
Charlotte and Wilmington Col
leges made their request to a
committee studying North Caro-
hna’s future college needs that
met at Charlotte College.
The committee will tell Gov.
Terry Sanford’s Commission on
Education Beyond The High
School what it thinks in a report
on June 1. The director of the
State Board of Higher Educa
tion, William C. Archie of Ra
leigh, heads the special com
mittee.
Action by the state legislature
would then be required to put
the recommendations of the gov
ernor’s commission into effect.
Both colleges seeking to be
come four - year institutions are
asking for more money from
the state.
Under the present system,
Charlotte College receives $6 per
student per semester. This pay
ment is figured on the number
See TRUSTEES, Page 3, Col. 1
Alumnus And Cheerleader Receive Grants
MILDRED HUNTER
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A Charlotte College alumnus and a
CC cheerleader recently received col
lege scholarships. Reid Wentz, CC grad
uate of 1960, will be doing graduate
study at Louisiana State University on
a National Defense Fellowship. Mildred
Hunter, who will graduate from CC in
June, will continue her studies on a
grant from the local chapter of Delta
Kappa Gamma, an honorary sorority for
teachers.
Wentz will graduate from the Uni
versity of North Carolina in June. His
major is English. In addition to the
National Defense Fellowship, Wentz re
ceive a three-year scholarship which he
will use with the Fellowship while at
Louisiana State.
While Wentz was at CC, he had an
average the last semester of approxi
mately 3.5 out of a possible 4.0. He
wrote for the Collegian and was a mem
ber of the writers’ club.
Miss Hunter’s scholarship is for one
year, but it will be renewable. Her name
has been on the Dean’s list for each grad
ing period since she has been a stu
dent at CC.
She is a member of Phi Theta
Kappa, an honorary scholastic frater
nity; the student N.E.A.; and the Span
ish Club. Somehow she has found time
also to work with the social committee
and lead cheers at the ball games as well
as work full-time with the North Caro
lina National Bank.
Bob Robertson, CC graduate of
1959 who has been studying for a year
at Dijon in France, keeps in touch with
CC. He has written to some friends here
of his recent travels throughout various
cities of eastern Europe. He traveled in
a student group which was permitted to
tour East Berlin.
Robertson is studying on a Full-
bright scholarship.
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REID WENTZ