YOU-ALL COME
CHRISTMAS DANCE
DEC. 21, 1963
LIBRARY
AUDITORIUM
SEMI-FORMAL
OIharl0tt? OlDllegtatt
Official Charlotte College Student Publication
YOU-ALL COME
FINAL EXAM.
JAN. 20-24, 1964
RESPECTIVE
CLASSROOM
INFORMAL
Volume 18, Number 3
Charlotl'e, North Carolina
December, 1963
Charlotte College Plans
Nurses' BA Course
Charlotte College plans to
establish a nursing program as
a separate department within
the college, with a department
director and at least one quali
fied faculty member in each of
five instructional areas.
1 The College expects to as-
iiume full responsibility for all
aspects of the degree program
in nursing, including such fa
cets as employment and con
trol of the faculty; policies and
practices relating to admission;
retention and welfare of stu
dents; curriculum development;
instruction of nursing students
throughout their program; and
contracting for the use of clini
cal resources.
The college’s desire to begin
t. baccalaureate degree program
in nursing was expressed in
March of 1962 in a presentation
of the Charlotte area’s higher
educational needs to the Gov
ernor’s Commission on Educa
tion Beyond the High School.
The Board of Trustees of the
Charlotte Community College
System stated in that presen
tation: “There is a need for a
four-year school of nursing.
. . In subsequent reports the
area’s urgent need for gradu
ates of a baccalaureate degree
program in nursing was cited.
However, the formal request
for approval from the Board of
Higher Education for this de
gree program was delayed un
til after a three-day consulta
tion visit of Dr. Gwendoline
MacDonald from the National
League for Nursing. This visit
was not scheduled until mid-
June 1963, and the written re
port was not available to col
lege officials until early in July.
College Trustees, recognizing
’the need throughout North Car
olina for nurses holding the
baccalaureate degree, believed
that they should proceed at
once with the implication of
such a program. At its Novem
ber 11th meeting, the Board
voted unanimously to request
approval by the Board of High
er Education for Charlotte Col
lege to offer the B.S. degree in
nursing including the early em
ployment of a director who
could assist in the development
of a curriculum to be present
ed for later approval by the
Board of Higher Education.
The need for a four-year
school of nursing in the Pied
mont area was pointed up by
the Director of the Southern
Regional Education Board, Win
fred L. Godwin, who stated in
an article in the Charlotte Ob
server that “Nowhere in the
United States are there enough
nurses to fill the health needs
of our growing population, but
their absence is particularly
conspicuous in the South. Here
we have only 173 nurses for
each 100,000 population in spite
of the 90,000 active registered
nurses within our region. The
National League for Nursing
suggests 300 nurses per 100,000
'population as a minimum re
quirement.”
This year 11,045 registered
nurses were working in North
Carolina. By 1970, when North
Carolina’s population will top
the 5-million mark, we will
need not less than 16,000 reg
istered nurses. This is 5,000
more than were available for
work in 1962.
Today there are 32 schools
of nursing in North Carolina.
Only six of these schools are
accredited and have instructors
with college degrees. In con
trast, nearly two-thirds of the
teachers in the non-accredited
schools have no college degree,
and over half of these teachers
have had no college work. More
than a third of the students
from the non-accredited schools
fail to pass their state licensing
examination.
It is anticipated that the cur
riculum for nursing students
will be developed to fit into
the already approved pattern
for a B.S. degree program at
the college. At the present time,
all course offerings in general
education considered contribu
tory to the nursing major are
available at Charlotte College,
except Bacteriology.
The space for this laboratory
has been made ready for the
equipment which will be in
stalled during the summer of
1964, thus making it possible
to offer Bacteriology in 1964-65.
Anatomy is another course the
prospective nurses will find re
quired. It is being taught for
the first time this year in a
newly equipped laboratory.
Though the Charlotte College
library will continue to grow
to meet the needs of each new
course offered by the school,
it will take time and money
to develop an adequate library
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Betty Craig — Miss December
Wanted: Stairway
To The Stars
Memorial Service Held
For Murrey Atkins
A gift of $1,000 from the
Jefferson Standard Foundation
plus additional funds from the
school provided the money for
a Cassegrain telescope bought
last August by Dr. Herbert
Hechenbleikner, Head of the
Biology Department. After con
sulting with the Director of
Morehead Planetarium in Chap
el Hill, the Astronomy Profes
sor at Catawba College, and
members of the Astronomy
Club in Charlotte, Dr. Hechen
bleikner purchased from Cali
fornia the 8-inch telescope.
This telescope is one of the
most advanced models of its
size, and it is adequate for use
in teaching astronomy in the
not too distant future at Char
lotte College. At the present
time the telescope is in the
basement of the Kennedy Build
ing. It will be set up on the top
of the old cylo near the boiler
house.
The most immediate obstacle
that the Science Department
faces is the lack of steel steps
to go up the cylo. Because of
the expense of steel steps. Dr.
Hechenbleikner has been look
ing for the past 4 or 5 months
for second-hand steps. So far
his efforts have been in vain.
As the astronomy course
grows, the Cassegrain will be
able to accommodate all the
additional equipment that the
proposed astronomy class will
need to become more familiar
with the stars. Mr. Robert A.
McRae, the probable astronomy
teacher, explained a few of
these extras. A photographic
plate or camera photographs
the reflected image; a spectro
graph analyzes the spectrum
and shows the chemical and
physical view of the heavenly
body; and a drive rotates the
telescope to compensate for the
rotation of the earth.
A short memorial service for
James Murrey Atkins, Chair
man of the Charlotte College
Board of Trustees, was held in
the Library Auditorium on De
cember 4. In the service, Dr.
Bonnie E. Cone reviewed con
tributions made by Mr. Atkins
to Charlotte College. Professor
Corkey then offered a prayer,
after which Dudney Jarnigan,
President of the Student Gov
ernment Association, read se-
Charlotte College
Plans Expansion
When Charlotte College first
contemplated buying the land
that makes up the present cam
pus, there was an old barn, a
few shacks and several large
houses on these acres. Now
plans and dreams have turned
into the actuality of brick and
concrete; four buildings are
complete and over 1300 stu
dents are attending daily classes
in the modern, spacious school.
Now, new plans have been
approved by the state calling
for construction of three more
buildings upping the capacity
to over 4,000.
$4-million in state money will
be needed for the buildings
scheduled to be finished in time
for the school year beginning
in the fall of 1964. The engi
neering, math, buildings include
a computer center to be located
behind the present Kennedy
building; an additional class
room building to run to east
and north of the Liberal Arts
building In a “J” shape; a new
building to the east of the Stu
dent Services building to house
the administrative facilities of
the college. At this same time,
money will be borrowed to com
plete the Student Service build
ing, which will cost almost
$602-thousand.
According to President Bon
nie E. Cone, construction on
new buildings should be under
way by June 1964. This will
give Charlotte College seven
completed buildings housing
classrooms, laboratories, admin
istrative functions, and the Stu
dent Services unit. In all, the
college will have spent over $7-
million and will have one of
the most modern campuses in
the country.
President Cone said that the
buildings will be expandable,
and that additions in the fu
ture will be no problem. By
1967, the college will add an
auditorium, a gym with exer
cise fields, and a swimming
pool, a maintenance warehouse
for the storage of books and
other supplies, convert present
administration units to class
rooms, and connect the class
room buildings with rainproof
walkways. Cost for this phase
in the building plan is estimat
ed at $6-mlIlion.
To provide land for these
new buildings, the college trus
tees are working on enlarging
the present campus of 392
acres. They have just recently
purchased a tract of land of 122
acres bordering on Mallard
Creek Church Road and added
that to the original campus. In
the near future the college ex
pects to obtain a four acre
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lections of Scripture. Accom
panied by Richard Van Sciver,
Mr. Harvey Woodruff sang “If
Thou But Suffer God to Guide
Thee.” The hymn was followed
by a eulogy of Mr. Atkins
delivered by Mr. Paul Lucas,
a member of the Board of
Trustees. In his speech, Mr. Lu
cas emphasized the contribu
tions of Murrey Atkins to his
community.
The fifty-seven year old pres
ident of the R. S. Dickson In
vestment Company, died in
Presbyterian Hospital on De
cember 2. The funeral service
was held December 4, at the
Myers Park Methodist Church
with the pastor, Dr. J. Clay
Madison, and Rev. James E. Fo-
gartie, of Myers Park Presby
terian Church, officiating.
As an area business and so
cial leader, Atkins served as a
city councilman, as chairman of
the former city school board,
and as a director of the Char
lotte Chamber of Commerce.
He had also been a member of
the Board of Governors of the
Investment Bankers Association
and District Chairman of the
American Securities Dealers
Association.
Governor Terry Sanford,
Mayor Stan Brookshire, and
many others praised Atkins’
many contributions to the com
munity he loved.
Said Sanford: “Murrey At
kins earned his reputation as a
successful businessman, a
strong supporter of education,
and as a civic leader. The Char
lotte area and the entire state
benefited from his work. For
years to come the students at
Charlotte College will be bene
ficiaries of his efforts.”
Mayor Brookshire expressed
his feelings this way: “In the
death of J. Murrey Atkins,
Charlotte lost one of its finest
citizens ... an outstanding
leader who placed service to his
community above self-interest.
He will be greatly missed in
the business, civic, and church
affairs of our city.”
Washington Official
Joining Faculty
william E. Jackson, of Wash
ington, D. C., will become a
faculty member at Charlotte
College next semester. Mr.
Jackson is now with the Bu
reau of the Budget with offices
in the Executive Office Build
ing, next door to the White
House.
“I always wanted to teach,
Mr. Jackson said, “I went into
Political Science with that in
mind. The only question was,
‘Teach where?’”
“When I got out of Colum
bia College, I wrote letters to
a lot of places, but never got
quite the job I was looking
for.
“Then I got this letter from
Charlotte College and went
down there, saw the campus,
talked to Miss Cone and people
in the city and decided that this
is what I was looking for.
“There was so much enthusi
asm about the college vdth
everybody I talked to, and such
wonderful prospects for its fu
ture.
“In such a heavily populated
area, with the community sup
port that’s there, it offers a rare
opportunity to participate in
the molding of a great institu
tion of university status.”
William E. Jackson graduat
ed from Davidson College and
the University of North Caro
lina. He has completed all of
his work toward his Ph.D. from
Columbia University except his
dissertation. A native of Moore
County, North Carolina, he will
move to Charlotte next month
and begin his teaching career.
Still a young man, but with
a bright political career in
Washington, he stated that al
though Charlotte does not have
the political life of Washington,
it was not without attractions
of its own.
“As it becomes aware of the
voting wallop of its expanding
population,” he stated, “the
whole area is becoming more
politically sophisticated.”
CCUN
Celebrot'es
Christmas
The Charlotte chapter of the
Collegiate Council of the Unit
ed Nations entertained foreign
students, faculty, and friends
at an old-fashioned southern
Christmas celebration on Sat
urday, December 14, at the Col
lege.
Guests who gathered at five
o’clock shared the experience of
decorating the tall Christmas
tree in the lobby of the College
Union. The tree was trimmed
with strings of popcorn, cran
berries, colored paper chains,
decorated cookies, and candy
canes. No modern manufactur
ed ornaments were used.
After a sumptuous Christmas
dinner of roast turkey, baked
ham, and all the fixings, includ
ing cider—all prepared by Mr.
O’Connor and his staff—a pro
gram of American Christmas
Scenes was presented by Mrs.
Janie Miller, with students and
faculty members participating.
Mrs. Miller read Van Dyke’s
“The Other Wiseman.” A touch
of humor was enjoyed by the
students in a scene between
Mrs. Winningham and her “re
tarded” son. Prof. Dan Morrill.
Music was furnished by the 22-
member Cochrane Girls Ensem
ble, directed by Mrs. Florine W.
Marren; and by Ken Bozeman
and Joan Wood singing Christ
mas folk songs.
Malachi Greene narrated the
program. William Green was
soloist, and Tom Meacham,
president of CCUN, gave the
Christmas prayer. Santa Claus
was there, of course, to the de
light of the Vilas family. Even
the weary Christmas shoppers
were a part of the American
Scene, played by Joyce Press
ley, Susan Weber, Bill Wills,
Bill Queen, George Simpson,
and George White.
The real portrait of Christ
mas concluded the program
with the Nativity scene. Beth
Groom played the role of Mary;
Denny Swing was Joseph; and
Judy Morgan, the angel.
Then the last hour was spent
in talk around the Christmas
tree and in consuming the edi
ble tree decorations.