Talent Show, Dance
Top May Day Week
end the May Day Festivities which
College Union chairman Gerald
Broome decided was very success
ful.
A dance, an art exhibit, a poetry
reading, a band concert, and a tal
ent show were the highlights of
the Charlotte College’s first May
Day Festival, held on the campus
May 1-5.
Things got started Saturday
night. May 1, in the gaily decorat
ed Library Auditorium at the May
Day dance. The Knights of Music
were imported from Shelby for the
affair. About this time of year, every-
Next on the week’s agenda was begins to ask, “When do we
a public tour of the campus and an annuals this spring.” The
art exhibit of Miss Maud Gate- answer is not at all this spring,
wood’s handicraft in the library on gharron Hacker, SI SI editor an-
Sunday, May 2. nounced last Friday that the year-
Monday morning, May 3, North would arrive in mid-August.
Carolina poet and actor Edward
But Once A Year.
An Annual Conies
WHEN?
Everyone (including Mr. Draper), was enthralled by Poet Edward Field.
Field visited the campus and gave a
reading of his poetry. His volume,
“Stand Up, Friend, With Me,” won
for him the 1962 Lament Poetry
Award.
Mr. Field is North Carolina
Poetry Circuit’s spring “circuit rid
er.” ,
This is a program which each
year brings young poets to colleges
and universities in the state of
North Carolina. This is Charlotte
College’s first year as a participat
ing college.
Monday evening, the concert
band of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill performed
The annual staff and its advisor
Dr. Blackman has decided to cover
the graduation of the first and
only four year class of Charlotte
College. Since Charlotte College
will become the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte July 1 this
New Building Contracts Awarded
stock up on mud tires, students.
You’re going to need them. We’re
getting ready to build again. ,
Contracts totaling $1,850,997
were awarded Tuesday, April 21,
to F. N. Thompson, Inc., Embree-
Reed, Inc., P. C. Godfrey, Inc., Aus
tin Electric Co., and Southern Ele
vator Co. for the construction of
for the chancellor, deans, and other
administrators. Registration offices,
testing rooms, and other business
offices will be located here, also.
The engineering building will be
the largest building on campus.
It will have 75,000 square feet of
floor space. Engineering labs, fac
ulty offices, a computer center.
College Chorus
Presents Program
The Charlotte College Chorus,
the Cleveland County Choral So
ciety, and members of the Western
North Carolina Choral Society, un
der the direction of Harvey L.
Woodruff, presented Handel’s Mes- two new buildings and an addition math classrooms, and a statistical
year’s senior class will a ra er Sunday, May 2, at Myers to the College Union building. laboritory will be contained in it.
special group. The staff thought “ — ..
they deserve the honor of being
covered for their entire year.
Sharron assures that this year’s
edition will definitely be different.
The spring as well as the fall
activities will be covered, making it
a complete chroncle.
Past annuals, which were dis-
Park Presbyterian Church. p. n. Thompson, Inc., is the gen- The College Union building,
Jo Ellen Carter provided organ eral contractors; Embree-Reed, Inc., which now has 24,000 square feet
music. Marie Teele of Shelby and will install plumbing; P. C. God- floor space, will add 36,000. A
Anita Bultman of Charlotte pro
vided harpsichord music. Robert
Maddox played the trumpet.
Soloists included Miriam Booth,
soprano, Edwin Easter, tenor,
Beverley McGee, contralto, and
for Charlotte College in the Li- tributed near the end of the spring Joseph People, base.
brary Auditorium. semester, by necessity ommitted
The program, directed by Major many spring activities.
John F. Yesuliatis, included Cres- Sharron also added that many
ton’s Celebration Overture, Jager’s colleges and universities follow the
Symphony for Band, Stratford regular practice of covering the
Suite by Cabe and selection from entire year in the yearbook. Air
West Side Story,” “Flower Drum Force Academy is a notable mem-
Song,” “Mary Poppins” and “The ber of this group.
Sound of Music.” Speaking on the subject of wheth-
The program was presented in
frey. Inc., will provide heating and l^rge dining room, a smaller dining
air conditioning; Austin Electric '"oo™ meetings, and a 500-seat
Co., will take care of electrical multi-purpose auditorium will be
work; and Southern Elevator Co. housed as well as space for student
will install transportation from one activities,
floor to another.
The three projects are expected
to be completed by this time next
conjunction with the College Union year,
sponsored May Day Festival. ^he 30,000 square foot adminis-
— tration bulding will have offices
Hodges, Thomas, Smith To Lead Classes
You can make $10. and up
for three Hours of your
time morning, afternoon or
evening. Write P. O. Box
9393, Charlotte, N. C. for
an interview. Adv.
Eighty-eight rising sophomores David Baucom won the vice-presi-
went to the polls and elected Bill dency by a tall vote margin over
Wednesday night. May 5, brought er this would become a tradition at Hodges and Sam Scott to the posi- his opponent Robert England. All
on the Talent Show, College stu- Charlotte, Sharron said, “I hope tions of president and vice-presi- five of the candidates who filed for
dents picked, sang, danced, strum- that this practice will continue be- dent respectively. Sophomores senior representatives were elected.
ed, and laughed their way through cause it will produce in effect, a
an evening of student talent (?). genuine yearbook.”
The talent show brought to an
New Journal In Library
Opportunities for teachers over- journal in the Charlotte College
elected as representatives were
Tim Britton, Donna Corbett, Jim
Cunning, Larry Gardner, and Wil
ma Happy.
President elect Mike Thomas and
vice president Susan Osborne will
They are Lewis Barber, Nancy
Barnes, Gerald Broome, George
Elam, and Andrea Whisnant.
Five student judges who will
form the judiciary branch of the
SGA were also elected. These
lead the ’65-’66 junior cass. Mot judges will hear and act on infrac-
seas and the new look of campus
living are two of several articles
featured in the first issue of
AMERICAN EDUCATION, a new
Last SGA Meeting
Dull, Uneventful
By SAM SCOTT
Collegian Staff Writer
Gus Psomadakis called to order
his last meeting as Speaker of the
Legislature and Vice-President of
the Student Government Associa
tion Monday, April 26, at the Col
lege Union.
The meeting was unusually un
eventful in contrast with the bust-
Library issued by the Office of
Education, U. S. Department of
Health, Education, & Welfare.
A successor to SCHOOL LIFE
and HIGHER EDUCATION, the
new journal is intended for laymen
as well as professional educators.
Published ten times each year, of
AMERICAN EDUCATION is, in
the view of its editor Theodora
Carlson, “a symbol of the idea that
education takes places in everyone
at every age.”
Other articles in the first issue
of the journal are entitled: “Ten
Years of Deliberate Speed,” “Talk,
Talk, Talk to Deaf Children,” and
“Musical Treasure Hunt.” Contri
butors to the issue include Dr.
Vittoria Giannini, director of the
Boney, Phyllis Henline, Salley Hil-
lert, and Ross Povey will serve as
the representatives. One junior seat
in the legislature was left vacant
and will be filled at a later date.
Kearney Smith was elected with
out contest, as president of the
first senior class of the University of 170 for and 46 against,
of North Carolina at Charlotte.
tions of university and honor code
laws. Court judges for the next
school term are Dick WTiitfied,
Marilyn Bowers, Skip Stanley,
Mary Case, and Gayle Gordon.
From a total vote of 216, the re
vised honor code passed by a count
Y R Cers Plan W—S Convention
Its’ convention time again for ial banquets will be given and the
the Young Republicans of Charlotte
College. This will be the second
such convention this year for the
group and will be held in Winston-
Salem at the Robert E. Lee Hotel.
The Charlotte College Young Re-
Convention will end with a late
evening combo party featuring the
Vandels.
ling activity of a normal meeting.
No major legislation was brought North Carolina School of the Arts Publican Club delegates are slated
in Winston-Salem; Mrs. Spencer
Tracy, wife of the actor; and Rob
ert C. Weaver, director of U. S.
Housing and Home Finance
Agency.
This journal is one of many new
periodical titles which have recent
ly been received in the library. All
remainder of the meeting was spent r^ew journals are available either Committee of which George Morton
with the type of activities which the serials department on the is a member,
are normal and fitting at the last second floor of the library or in the
meeting of a changing organiza- cataloging area on the first floor.
At present the library subscribes
April 26 sank into the official rec- to approximately 800 periodicals;
ord and the 1964-1965 Student Leg- this number will be increased to
islature slipped quietfuly into the 1200 by the end of the 1965-66 ac- ™°®t of the business will be con-
P®®t. ademic year. ducted on Saturday. Two testimon-
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Two constitutions. Alpha Phi
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ty’s, were granted temporary chart
ers with a permanemt charter given
to the Project of the Americas
Club. After the discussion on the
constitutions was terminated, the
The Best Always to UNC-C
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to play an important role in the
workings of the Convention. Mr. t
Buddy Davis, local club president, | Le'Ro/s Beauty Salon
IS on the Credentials Committee; >7
Sam Scott is on the State Member- I ~ 375-2846
ship Committee; and Rick Dancy
is co-chairman of the Platfrom
Mr. Richard Nixon will deliver
the keynote address on Saturday
night. May 8. The Convention of-
fically begins Friday, May 7, but
Congratulations to Dr. Cone and UNC-C
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