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1U I 1941 1966 As We Were Saying Before We Were Interrupted . . . wag mwwm. Weather: Any Weather In Chapel Hill Is Good Founded Feb. 23, 1893 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, June 3, 1966 Class of 41 Edition I The Persona! Touch Growth And Politics iring New By WILLIAM JOSLIN In 25 years the University's role in the life of our State has changed perceptibly and, to my way of thinking, to the detri ment of the University. (I use the term "the Univer sity" in the sense we always did to mean the branch at Chapel Hill.) The University's ties with both students and alumni have weak ened as their loyalty to it has waned over the years. Sadly, the "University has come under in creasing political sniping, if not a frontal assault. .Larger battles loom ahead. What are the areas in which the University's role in the life of cur State has changed most noticeably in 25 years? 1. BIGNESS. IMPERSONALITY From an enrollment of 4,108 in 1941, the University has ex panded to 12,419. The campus has spread in all directions. Our affluent students must have cars or motorcycles to get from one class to another within the allot ted time. The faculty has grown in proportion. More and more class es are taught in large sections with the professors lecturing by microphones and delegating all paper-grading and contact with the students to computers and to assistants. Today's student is lucky if he lands in a class taught by one of the best known professors. He is even luckier if he is able to meet and know one of them. Per haps the student who is deter mined to meet and know the great minds of the University faculty can still do so, but the ft it ft Reunion Planners Vote on Speakers Alumni attending the Feb. 6 reunion planning session approv ed of Communist speakers on the UNC campus though not over whelmingly. The alumni were asked to fill out a questionnaire about them selves and an oral request was made that they add "yes" or "no" at the bottom in regard to admitting Communist speakers. Results: 16 "yes"; 14 "no"; 17 abstained. The poll was taken on the eve of Gov. Dan K. Moore's meeting with UNC trustees to decide on the appearances of two Com munists who had been invited to speak at the University. They were Herbert Aptheker, head of the Marxist Studies group in New York City, and Frank Wil kinson, head of a committee seeking to abolish the House Committee on Un-American Ac tivities. The trustees decided "no." Dorsey Bands Were Big News The April 3, 1941, edition of the Daily Tar Heel carried a one -column heading, "Yugoslavs United Against Nazi Invasion." The paper proclaimed in a six column streamer: "Pastor, Jimmy Dorsey Signed for Spring Dances." Big bands were par for the major dance weekends, and big news. Tony Pastor played for the Junior-Seniors, Jimmy Dor sey for the Finals, and Bob Chester for Fall Germans. Tom my Dorsey headlined May Fro lics. "Dorsey's present group is con sidered his best," reported the paper. "Featured besides Tommy are such outstanding musical favorites as Frank Sinatra, bari tone soioist, Connie Haines, sweetheart of swing. Buddy Rich, ace drummer, Ziggy Elman and his trumpet, and the Pied Pipers, harmony quartette." Jo Stafford was one of the latter. Chatting with a DTH reporter at the Tin Can, Sinatra said "111 Never Smile Again" was "a great number," but that it did get a little monotonous singing it two or three times a night. For Mid-Winters, the German Club had Jack Teagarden's or chestra. He played a concert in Memorial HalL a tea dance, and two evening dances. Cost for the set: $5. Problems obstacles are many. We had smaller classes, a de gree of choice in selecting profs at registration time, and open doors to after-hours visits. Bigness and loss of intimacy seems to have had a levelling ef fect on the faculty, at least to an outsider. Do you remember the giants we used to try to schedule or to avoid? Bernstein in Money and Banking, Jim Fesler in Poli tical Science, Dr. George Coffin Taylor for Shakespeare, Harry Wolfe in Labor Problems, and Rupert Vance in Sociology, etc. The giants are probably still at the University, but their heads are hard to spot in the crowd. This tremendous growth has depersonalized students and fac ulty, with a loss of loyalty and commitment. The alumnus who formerly thought only of Chapel Hill for his boy, now ponders carefully before enrolling his son. 2. ATTACKS FROM WITHOUT Twenty-five years ago the University had its legislative battles, largely over appropria tions. The University had to fight for every cent, usually set tling for less than it needed. But by and large the battles were limited to the legislative forum and were confined to the issue of appropriations. Of course there were detrac tors, such as Mr. Dave Clark, who never missed an opportunity to attack Dr. Frank Graham, and there were attacks on in dividual University professors. But the University as a whole remained above the fray and was never the target of a major as sault. Consolidation was an ac cepted fact. But since then, we have some where, sometime, crossed a wa tershed. The University is now open to attacks on many fronts. Perhaps it was the 1950 Sena torial campaign, in which Dr. Frank was defeated after a bit ter and divisive campaign that marked the end of the Univer sity's relative immunity from political wars. Regardless of the reasons, the University has recently been embroiled in one controversy after another, including the fight over the composition and func tions of the Board of Higher Ed ucation, the bitter fight over the name of our sister institution in Raleigh, formerly N. C. State and now known as North Caro lina State University, and the recurrent fight over the Speaker Ban Law. These engagements have opened wounds that are slow in healing. Now, while the University is still on the defensive a major fight is brewing over a proposal to give university status to East Carolina College, and also the related question of whether such status should be granted as an institution within or outside of the consolidated University. The move to establish East Carolina College as a separate university poses serious ques tions. Can our State afford the luxury of parallel universities competing with one another for students, faculty and for legis lative appropriations? Twenty - (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) Sandburg Saw '41 Class As 'Bridge Generation9 (Reprinted from Raleigh Newt and Observer, Jane. 11, 1941) Chapel Hill, June 10 Hard work, self-denial, and effective opposition to inroads of foreign propaganda will be necessary if America is to preserve its hard won liberty, silver-haired Carl Sandburg, famous poet and bio grapher, told a record-breaking graduating class of more than 700 at the University of North Carolina here tonight. Speaking quietly but effective ly for less than half an hour be fore an audience of 7,000, Sand burg scored Charles Lindbergh's attitude toward the dictator na tions and warned that this coun try must be ever vigilant against "constant propaganda operating from the continents of Europe." CHANGED TUNE Referring to Colonel Lindbergh without mentioning his name, Mr. Sandburg spoke of "a fam ous aviator who has quit flying . . j i , , , , . , , , , , v ' V .5 1 m ' ' f ftHun W HMHMMHHHBHiHMbwAvuvWiVMUASMWMb --f-"-"j-"-'-'-rrrrfi'i'ivi -'ifr "i'n"-''-'-f-,--,r,-"'MT'Wiaffl'r'i'----'- THEY RUN THE SHOW Permanent officers of the Class of '41 are shown with Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, Jr., of Greens boro, second from left, who is 25th Reunion Chairman. Officers are Herb Hardy, left, of Maury, president; Stacy Crockett Scales of Martinsville, Va., secretary; and Gates Kimball of Charlotte, vice president. (Photo from UNC Photo Lab.) Juniors on Moon Seer Goes Into Orbit, Uievs (NIG In 25 Years By PETE IVEY Students in Astrophysics at Chapel Hill in 1991 will be spending their next to last year in the University in the "Junior Year on the College of the Moon" project. JYCOM will be a joint humanities-science program financed by the United Nations. They will go on chartered space craft flying from the Carolina Duke Universe Travel Center in the Research Triangle Park. The University of North Car olina in 1991, only 25 years away, will be an oasis of land scaped campus with trees and shrubs and the Old Well and Davie Poplar intact, amid the Piedmont Crescent City, a mega polis of 10,000,000 still the long est city in the world as it was in 1966, and now one of the larg est. Piedmont Crescent City, of which the village of Chapel Hill will be limited to 100,000 popu lation according to zoning for beauty and pastoral atmosphere, will contain also other universi ties within the framework of the Consolidated University of North Carolina, with units at Wilming ton, . Kinston, Manteo, Raleigh, Chapel Hill, Greensboro, Ashe ville, Charlotte, and the Astro physics Extension Institution on the new-found planet Zovril. The student body of 40,000 and the faculty of 3,500 in Chapel Student Populations UNC's enrollment of 13,130 in Chapel Hill looks big to the class of '41, but it's far below the leading state universities in size. California, with almost 120,000 in its University system, is well known for its multitude of stu dents. Some of the other leading universities in enrollment may be a surprise: State University of New York, 78,000; Minnesota, 58,000; Wis consin, 48,500; Illinois, 41,600; Indiana, 41,500; Michigan State, 41,300; Maryland, 38,000; Mich igan, 34,500; New York Univer sity, 31,000; and Southern Illi nois, 25,000. Graham's Poetic Farewell and taken to talking. Thirteen years ago his picture was hung on college walls as symbol of youth ready to risk and adven ture for the sake of great achie vement. "Now all of a sudden that same daring aviator has begun to talk the language of comfort and safety first and of breakfast at home with mother." He said the graduates of today represent a "bridge generation the children of a transition more furious in its tempo than any yet known with one foot in the old and the other in the new America.' Discussing the danger of pro paganda, he referred to a recent meeting of the America First Committee in Chicago, when ele ments in the audience hooted and howled when "God Bless America" was sung, saying that attitude indicated the propaganda of race oppression had reached Hill will be confined on the greensward of some 4,000 acres. A major problem of 1991, built upon traffic congestion dilem mas of the 1970's, will be one of space inner space on the cam pus, as contrasted with outer space in new scientific explora tion. The University, in 1991, will be underground as well as above ground. Subways will be connecting all segments of the campus, from the Old Graham Memorial to South Building, to the Library, to Kenan Stadium, to the Medical Center and on to the Mason Farm Modern Design Center of Near-Humanistic. Stu dies of People from Outer Space J and Exotic Planets. Building beneath ground will be relatively less expensive, and much safer. Economy will be realized by combination parking garages (we'll still have modi fied automobiles) and associated fall-out shelters and snack bars. Classrooms and laboratories and student activity centers will also be below ground level. Air-conditioning and heating will be no real problem because of the low cost of atomic energy power owned by the University's utili ties plants. Students will be much smarter, aided by new discoveries in chemical strengthening of me mory and other facets of the brain and nervous system, as well as the normal upward evo lution of intelligence in succeed ing generations. Faculty will likewise be abler with particular attention di rected at a small contingent of super-brains. These super-brains will be young men professors born and developed after 1975. They will be products of the successful exploitation of DNA, whereby the genes of men and women of genius can produce a superior number of teachers who will be from 20 to 25 years of age, but brainy as all get-out. Students will go to classes, or they may tune in on lectures by (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) across the sea from Berlin. "If the British Isles go down, we will have one notice after an other served upon us, and shame after shame piled upon us unless we fight a bloody war for the right to be a free people," he declared. There is today, he said, "a great competition of propaganda for the good will of the masses of the people." Mr. Sandburg scored the de struction of millions of books by bombs and fires on direct orders of dictators in Europe. "Copies of many books prohi bited have been shipped to Am erica to be reprinted in their original language. So in a cer tain sense we have become an arsenal of the literature of poli tical freedom as well as the ar senal for democracy. Administrative Dean Robert B. House, whose son, Robert B., Jr., (CONTINUED ON PACE 4) Warm Reunion Planned by 90 In Feb. Snow By GRACE RUTLEDGE HAM RICK Remains of a 10-inch snow storm greeted some 90 alumni and mates gathering Feb. 6 at Carolina Inn to plan a gala June 3-4 celebration for '41-ers who will match their anniversary with the silver in their hair or in some instances, what's left of it! Reunion chairman Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, sporting some silver threads but lucky enough to have retained a full head of wavy hair, remarked that he had planned to sit up the night be fore to do a coloring job ... to which bald-pated Rush Hamrick Jr., retorted, "I should have that problem!" President Herb Hardy welcom ed classmates with flashing smile and, like a pro, batted near - perfect in remembering names ... a record of which no other could brag. The planning session over, Herb was asked if he'd recognized all present. He admitted only one had thrown him! Herb's still-youthful face was framed by white curls in con trast to the black of 25 years ago. Now a successful Maury farmer, he serves on the board of trustees of UNC and Elizabeth City State College and is a three-term veteran of the N. C. State Legislature. Happy faces, though more lined, reflected the camaraderie of the nostalgic and fun-filled Sunday afternoon when plans were laid for this momentous June '66 occasion. Alumni from throughout North Carolina were on hand. Out-of-staters included Stacy Crockett Scales, mother of four, of Martinsville, Va., and Paul Severin of Ashland, Va. Insurance salesman Severin has six children, including 14-year-old twin boys. For the past seven years he has been a mem ber of the Million Dollar Round Table, whose membership in cludes salesmen of $1 million or more in life insurance in one year. His latest sports acclaim was to be named club golf cham pion two years ago at Hermitage Club. (See Page 3). Andy Gennett, general man ager of Gennett Lumber Com pany in Asheville, probably trav eled the greatest distance from the west. Walter L. Sheffield, Jr., sales agent for Bond Crown and Cork Division of Continental Can Co., and Dr. Frank Rey nolds, pediatrician who after (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) Old Editors Try Again on DTH This special issue of the Daily Tar Heel is being distributed to the Class of 1941 for its 25th re union in Chapel Hill June 3 and 4. By coincidence (or maybe a trend is indicated) three key ed itors of the Daily Tar Heel of 25 years ago now work in 'Washing ton, D. C. Don Bishop, Editor, is in the Office of the Secretary of Commerce. Charles Barrett, Man aging Editor, is at Newmyer As sociates, a consulting firm which reports and interprets govern ment affairs for major compan ies. Leonard K, Lobred, Sports Editor, is Director of the Divi sion of International Trade for the National Canners Associa tion. This editorial nucleus recruit ed assistance from several quar ters (see masthead on Page 2), circulated a questionnaire with the help of the General Alumni Association, and began turning out copy. The paper was printed at the plant of the Cleveland Times in Shelby, with DTH staf fer Grace Rutledge Hamrick serving as Associate Editor. Grace was former editor of The Times. Circulation Manager Joseph E. Zaytoun of Raleigh took up his old position. If you find an occasional error, just say, "WelL it's the same old Daily Tar HeeL" Car Population Brick sidewalks were a big is sue in 1941. Now the University has reg istered 6,400 student's cars to park on the campus. UNC has many more cars now than there were students in 1941. Our Changing World--0r Life And Times Of The Honda Generation By MARTHA CLAM PITT McKAY "Tiger-trains" or busses, which will it be? The question is red hot and was one of the top issues in the spring campaign for the UNC student body presidency. The University Party was for "tiger trains," the Student Party for busses but everybody was for shuttle transportation for South campus. it:,- fVK, U -ti.it ? i 'I OLD FOLKS' HOME A symbol of change on the campus is ten-story Cameron Morrison Dormitory, a kind of vertical Lower Quadrangle. It is home for many members of the class of '41 for a few days during their 25th reunion. Class of '41 r.1ay Prefer UNC In Year That Was BY CHARLES BARRETT There's no doubt how the class of '41 feels about the Chapel Hill of 25 years ago; the love affair is still warm. Chapel Hill today? Now you're moving into a bit of a debate. Some members of the class of '41 say UNC is bigger but funda mentally the same, with all the old virtues. Others say Carolina has become much too immense, an impersonal machine, a pres sure cooker, with an excess of crackpots and agitators. The fondly monolithic view of the old Chapel Hill, and the div ergent views of the current mod el, were voiced in reply to ques tions distributed for this reunion issue of the Daily Tar Heel (with no apologies to Louis Harris, a mere junior when we were kings of the campus). Forty-oners described Carolina in '41 as warm, friendly, relax ed, charming, broadening, sensi bly liberal, an oasis of fun and culture and enlightenment. About 94 percent said if they were making the decision again, they would pick UNC; only 3 percent indicated regrets about their choice of Carolina, and 3 percent didn't know. Would they enjoy Carolina as much if they were students to day? A majority of 53 percent flatly said "no;" 38 percent still gave with an enthusiastic "yes;" and about 9 percent had varying degrees of doubt and indecision. Many of the critics acknowl edged they might get more edu cation today, though they would enjoy it less. That old pro, Alumni Secre tary J. Maryon Saunders, gives the impression he has heard all this before, perhaps even at oth The Quote Seems Familiar But Is It 1941 or 1966? All of the following appeared in the Daily Tar Heel in 1941 or 1966. What was the year of each item? (See Page 2 for an swers.) 1. Editorial: What are we to do about Communism? Are we to allow free debate? 2. Letter: Since "open dis cussion' has always been the cornerstone of our University life. . . . 3. News: The controversy over book prices has been raging for some years now. A student government Cooperative Com mittee is active to get reforms in the present book store policy. 4. Letter: On Feb. 4 I con tracted some kind of food poison from something I ate at the cafe teria. 5. Letter: We need a side Levis, Long Hair, High-Rise A "Tiger-train," in case you didn't know, is a tractor which pulls a string of trailers. And South campus? It's a complex of buildings amid a sea of Hondas, where before long at least half of the student pop ulation will be living. The location? Remember the lovely woods behind and beyond the stadium? The red earth there has opened up and spewed forth A 9 v . :-.-x-; ;-:-jw;;-; . V; i JIttLSr er 25th reunions. Glancing through some of the more than 150 replies, Maryon detected symptoms of "alumnitis that normal and natural ailment identified by . the feeling that Chapel Hill reached its high noon 25 years ago and has been going down hill ever since." His prescription, if you feel afflicted, is a perceptive sight seeing around the campus and a talk with those who are really familiar with Chapel Hill of 1966. Sometimes it's all a matter of the point of view. Robert Cohn, now a trial examiner with the government in Washington, D. C, thought he might like the cur rent UNC better because there are more coeds per boy. But Stacy Crockett Scales, now a housewife in Martinsville, Va., thought she might like the old UNC better because "the 500 girls and 3,000 boys was an ex cellent ratio for a girL" Following are some samples from the debate about the Caro lina of 1966. First, those who feel they would not enjoy UNC as much today as in 1941: SKEPTICS Margaret Arnold Ball, house wife in McLean, Va., complains that "Students WORK today!" William L. Eeerman, former sports writer, now public rela tions director for Burlington In dustries: "Too many students with too much nervous energy." Marjorie Johnston McAfee, now of Hartford City, Indiana, says all schools today are sub ject to "frantic pressures' which take away "the relaxed joy of living we knew." Gates Kimball, Skipper Bowles, (CONTINUED ON PAGE 3) walk and we need it now. 6. Headline: National Poll Shows Majority of Students Drink. 7. Letter: A column appear ing in a recent DTH made some misstatements of fact. 8. Letter: Kindly allow me, sir, to warn the students of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill that they must take with a very large grain of salty suspicion anything that is print ed in the Daily Tar HeeL 9. Statement of candidate: The Daily Tar Heel in the past has been not only the foremost college newspaper in the South, but also a respected molder of campus opinion. If elected editor, I plan to return the paper to its old position of prestige and prominence. 1! ' , . . . six men's dorms, a glass and con crete cafeteria, tennis court5. a new baseball field (Emerson will be the site of a new stu dent union and a library addi tion), row upon row of apart ments for married students, and literally acres of asphalt parking lots. One of the dorms, Morrison, is a 10-story affair. Two, Craige . and Ehringhaus, are seven, with a 12 -story one on the way. Craige Dorm is also known as Maverick House and man, if you don't know the Mavericks, you haven't lived. They have their own government, newspap er, parties, escapades and Mav erick brand esprit de corps. (Recently Maverick House resi dents won the "Stuff a Ford" contest. The 35 count 'em, 35 participants won free tickets to the Roger "King of the Road" Miller concert. Of the 12,500 students, appar ently not one would be caught dead at a formal dance. Certain ly while they're in residence here, they don't even have to face the issue, for there is none. Big weekends consist of a con cert by the Supremes, or some such group, and then myriads of small or not so small combo parties. Fraternities and sororities don't mean as much as they used to. Maverick, Big Mo (Morrison) and other South campus dorms rock and roll in Chase cafeteria. And a simply mad, mad, mad time is had by all on Jubilee weekend. An outdoor concert on that weekend turns the mall be tween South building and the li brary into a sea of swinging cats. Holy administration! It's great! The Bloody Bucket and the Alley have gone the way of all flesh since 1941, but Harry's is still around, still accepting chits. Some people never learn. The place to eat lunch is "the Rat" Danziger's Rathskeller to the uninitiated. The place to buy records is Kemp's, who was here then and before a disastrous fire in May, was in Ab's old stand. He is, of late, "the Franklin Street French man," serves egg nog at Christ mas, goes mad at sale time (ev ery day). Ankle socks are out, as are Spaulding saddle shoes. (Janet Watson Carroll told the writer once that if a stranger who was wearing Spauldings spoke to her, she knew at once that everything (CONTINUED ON PAGE 4) Phi Betes Don't Remember Grades By BRADLEY LONG The '41 Phi Beta Kappas have two things in common: They don't wear their key and they don't recall their scholastic av erage. Certainly, none flunked Hugh Lefler's course in American his tory. Tom Nash, an M.D. in Eliza beth City, recalls that he made the minimum for PBK member ship. And Fred Cazel, visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley, thinks he Lovin's Key Words For Meaning of PBK Archibald K. Lovin, a CPA in Red Springs, evalu ates Phi Beta Kappa: "Pleasure, Honor, Inspira tion. "Balance, Endurance, Thor. oughness, Acceptance. "Knowledge, Awareness, Principles, Proficiency, Achievement." . 1 may have been fourth in the class. Student body president David Morrison not only doesnt recall his everage but recollects that one professor, in open ci. called him -the dumbest Bete that ever passed through Chapel HiH." Dave becameXf1 tor of production and ing with White uSS (Pharmaceuticals) fa Two PBK, afe remerr.K. their average. Sol FlJS r (coifrxmro, 0 pEse n