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Official Charlotte College Student Publication
Volume 18, Number 6 Charlotte, North Carolina April, 1964
Two Concerts Set For April
Morning Concert:
Robert Hale
On April 9 the bass-baritone
Robert Hale will come to the
campus for a morning concert in
the Library Auditorium, the
exact hour to be announced.
An accomplished young musi
cian, Robert Wallace Hale has
won a number of awards in the
last several years and other dis
tinguished honors. He was elect
ed “Singer of the Year” by the
Voice Teachers of America in
1963, and before that he had
won the Wilson Award in the
ROBERT WALLACE HALE
Singer of Year, 1963
Bloch Young Artist Competition
iri 1961.
His professional career has
included such prominent sing
ing roles as Alfio in Cavalleria
Rusticanna, and Escamillo from
Carmen. He also sang the roles
of Billy Bigelow in Carousel,
Emil Debecque in South Pacific,
and others.
In Europe Mr. Hale toured
with an American Opera group
representing the United States
Government. He appeared with
the Amarillo Symphony on
February 19, 1963, as guest
soloist, after winning the Ama
rillo Young Artist Award.
Mr. Hale’s programs empha
size classical selections, but
after intermission he makes his
wqy up to the contemporary
composers.
Before his appearance on
campus, Mr. Hale will give a
concert on Wednesday evening,
April 8, in the Great Hall of
Myers Park Baptist Church. His
evening concert there will be
open to the public.
Spring Dance
Date Set
The Social Committee under
the direction of Martin Richek
has made public the plans for
the annual spring dance. This
will be a semi-formal but the
Social Committee states that
formal gowns may be worn by
the girls.
The dates for the spring
l^ekend are April 17 and 18.
ihere will be a jazz concert on
Friday night. The orchestra for
the evening of the spring dance
will be the Duke Ambassadors
and there WILL be a vocalist.
Watch for more plans in the
future.
Evening;
Charlotte Choral Society
The Charlotte Choral Society,
widely known for its “Singing
Christmas Tree,” will appear in
the Library Auditorium on
Thursday evening, April 14, at
8:15.
For this appearance at Char
lotte College, the Choral Society
has chosen from its repertoire a
program of traditional and con
temporary selections, forming
the first half of the concert.
After intermission the pro
gram will range through three
special groupings of English
folk songs, American music, and
popular numbers from “West
Side Story.” Drawing as it does
from both traditional and con
temporary music, the concert
will offer arrangements of a
wide variety of choral composi
tions.
The Charlotte Choral Society,
under the direction of Alice
Hulbert Berman, has presented
over 50 concerts in addition to
its appearances on “The Sing
ing Christmas Tree” over the
last eight years. Although a
non-profit organization, it has
raised over $28,000 for charity
since it was organized 10 years
ago.
The members of the Choral
Society are a mixed group,
which includes almost every oc
cupation from a fireman, and a
chief surgical nurse, to a stock
broker. Together the 100 mem
bers have 642 years of musical
training behind them, and sev
eral are choir directors, but at
least half are amateurs.
The appearance of the Char
lotte Choral Society on campus
will be the second of four col
lege concerts which they are
presenting this spring. For other
appearances they will travel to
Winthrop, Pfeiffer, and Cataw
ba colleges.
In addition to these singing
engagements, the Choral Socie
ty will be presented in an open-
air concert at the Mint Museum
in late spring, and two other
concerts are pending if schedul
ing arrangements can be fitted.
SGA Appoints
NSA; and 2 Soph.
Representatives
The Student Government ap
pointed two persons to fill the
positions of Sophomore Repre
sentatives at the Student Coun
cil Meeting on March the 16th.
The names were presented by
the President of the Student
Body, Dudney Jarnigan. The
two new members are Beverly
Blankenship and George Calla
han.
David Stack was appointed as
the new National Student Asso
ciation Co-ordinator for Char
lotte College.
NEW DATES SET FOR
SUMMER SESSIONS
C. C. will operate the regu
lar summer sessions this
year. The new dates for the
session will be from Mon
day June 8th until Wednes
day August 28th. The ses
sions will last for twelve
weeks.
New Librarian; Eigiit New
Facuity Approved by Board
Miss April—Anne Dunlap
Cancellation Of Land
Referendum Urged
County Attorney Thomas C.
Ruff has urged that the county
commissioners cancel plans for
a referendum and give Char
lotte College 520 acres of coun
ty land on their own authority.
While admitting that the
procedure might be legally con
testable, he feels that a good
case could be made on the com
missioners’ behalf. If the ref
erendum were held, it probably
could not take place before next
year. The delay might weaken
the college’s case for being
selected as a fourth branch of
the University of North Caro
lina, college officials believe.
Three of the commissioners
were inclined to go along with
the County Attorney at the
commissioners’ meeting, but two
wanted to wait for the referen
dum.
When it became clear that
unanimity could not be reached,
all five commissioners agreed to
postpone action and confer fur
ther with Charlotte College of
ficials. For the time being the
decision for the referendum
stands.
A three-two vote might be
used against the college by
those in the 1965 General As
sembly who would like to see a
new university campus located
elsewhere, it was believed.
Chairman Charles M. Lowe
persuaded Commissioners Blythe
and Lawing to hear representa
tives of the college on the need
for quick action. No time has
been set for that meeting.
Ruff’s proposal was a change
of position for the attorney, who
earlier had persuaded the com
missioners not to give the land
outright, as they had planned,
but to put the question to the
people in a referendum.
Ruff’s earlier views conflict
with those of the state attorney
general, who thought that the
commissioners had authority to
give the land outright without
a referendum.
Physics Speaker
To Speak at CC
Myron F. Fair, Director of
Education and Training Section
of the Health Physics Division
of Oak Ridge National Labora
tory, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
will speak in room 107 in the
Kennedy building on the sub
ject: “Current Topics in Radia
tion Measurement” and on ca
reer and graduate training in
the field of radiation physics.
Time of the event is April 8,
1964 at 2 p.m. All people on
campus who are interested in
science and radiation are invited
to attend. Enough time will be
allowed on preliminary material
to make the talk interesting to
all persons with moderate scien
tific knowledge. After the talk,
the speaker will converse with
interested individuals.
The Charlotte College Physics
Department and the Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies will
sponsor the event.
At the meeting of the Board
of Trustees on March 24, the
following new faculty and staff
members were approved for the
Fall Semester:
James D. Ramer will assume
his duties as head librarian in
the Fall. Mr. Ramer is a Candi
date for his doctorate in Library
Science at Columbia University,
New York City. He will bring
an M.S. from Columbia and an
AB in Philosophy from Occiden-
WUS Drive
Addressed
by Gustafson
On Monday, March 16, 1964,
at 10:30 a.m. in the cafeteria,
Mr. Paul Gustafson, a student
traveler for WUS and a gradu
ate of Boston University, was
introduced by Bob Schaeffer,
Sophomore Class President.
Speaking for an half hour, Mr.
Gustafson introduced “Wee
Wus” and thus launched a week
long string of activities.
Mr. Gustafson began by show
ing CC students a bit of irony
in American college students’
problems and that of foreign
students’. In America, he said,
college campuses have problems
of acorns falling on students’
heads plus they drive dangerous
cars to college. In the foreign
countries which WUS serves,
the students have problems with
coconuts flopping down on top
of them and they walk or ride
bikes to college.
Then, Mr. Gustafson gave the
problem of the University of
Calcutta’s. A student there has
an allowance of 10^ for lunch.
He either buys from a “Hawk
er” at a roadside stand or he
goes to a coffeehouse, has two
cups of coffee and buys ten
cigarettes—all for 10^!
With its mutual assistance
service scholarships, WUS can
offer a University of Hong Kong
student a room, board, and his
education for one year for only
$100 so long as the student
works ten hours per week on
construction of new buildings,
babysits, etc.
Mr. Gustafson went on to say
that the Student from Hong
Kong is also concerned about
his fellow students in Korea.
“In WUS, everyone gives and
everyone receives, WUS devel
ops a basis for mutual commu
nication.”
Drifting back to Calcutta,
Mr. Gustafson said that WUS
could help the students there to
build a canteen. The students,
as previously mentioned, “have
a poor, starchy diet; they need
a protein diet. The head of the
health center at the University
of Calcutta has been there
seven years and he and WUS
could draw up a well-balanced
diet. Meals could be provided for
10^ with subsidization. They
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tal College in California to his
new job. He belongs to the hon
orary society Phi Beta Kappa.
He has studied at the University
of Paris, at Poitiers, and has
traveled in Spain. He is now a
librarian at Columbia, and was
librarian at Maryland, New
York University, and served in
the U. S. Army’s Quartermaster
Corps, from 1946 to 1948, and
from 1952 to 1956.
Dr. Phillip Vario, who is now
teaching at Hunter College in
New York, served as an Educa
tional Consultant with the N. C.
Film Board in 1963. Dr. Verio
received his doctorate in Edu
cation at Duke University. He
will serve as ari Associate Pro
fessor in the Education Depart
ment here.
Mr. John D. Thomas, will
bring in a BS from Auburn
University and an MA from the
University of Virginia to the
Mathematics Department. Mr.
Thomas is a candidate for his
Ph.D. at the University of South
Carolina. The Mathematics De
partment will also receive a new
Associate Professor and an In
structor. Dr. Joseph S. Schell
received his Ph.D. in Differential
Geometry from Indiana Univer
sity. Mr. Lloyd D. Davis, who
is coming in as an Instructor,
took his MS in Math at the Uni
versity of Miami, and is now em
ployed at General Electric.
Mr. Morton Shapiro is arriv
ing in the Fall to take a posi
tion in the English Department
as an Instructor. He is a Ph.D.
Candidate at the University of
Alabama, and a member of
Phi Beta Kappa, with a cum
laitde graduation from the Uni
versity of Miami, and a Fellow
ship at the University of Ala
bama to his credit. Another
addition to the English Depart
ment is Mr. James R. Draper,
who is also signing on as an
Instructor. Mr. Draper is a
graduate of the University of
Rhode Island, and Penn Stale
University, with professional
affiliations with the Professional
Studies Society.
The Economics and Business
Administration Department will
take on a candidate for a Ph.D.
from Michigan State University,
where he is now an assistant in
structor. Mr. Donald J. Klein
will join as an Assistant Pro
fessor in the fall.
The History and Political Sci
ence Department will receive an
Assistant Professor next Fall.
Mr. Larry L. Wade, a Ph.D.
Candidate in Political Science,
now serves in the Executive Of
fice of the Bureau of the Budget
in Washington.
Dr. Lay H. Witherspoon, who
will join the Philosophy and
Religion Department, took his
BA from Duke, and his Ph.D. at
Boston University. He taught at
the American University in
1954-55, and has served as As
sistant Minister at Myers
Park.
Dr. Herryk Ziomek is expect
ed in the Spanish Department
as an Assistant Professor. He
hails from Colorado State Uni
versity, and took his Ph.D. in
Spanish at the University of
Minnesota.