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PAGE TES iXUu JrljjVi^i—Douinern r^ineo/ aiwa*a Details Of Presbyterian College Merger Proposal Related By Mayor Gilmore • -1-If T._i ._T 4-(-i• T'Qic^i TTrtiiiirtti as cnn• TTjit'T'v TC. Sinvth 3nd 'Voit,0d—such thinss (Mayor Voit Gilmore went on the air over Station WEEB last Friday afternoon to ex plain the proposed Presbyte rian College merger plan and what’s being done about it in Southern Pines, one of the communities under consid eration as a site for the pro posed institution. Since Mr. Gilmore spoke, the elders and deacons of Brownson Memo rial Presbyterian Church, meeting Sunday,,have endors ed the college project. The Pi lot reprints Mayor Gilmore’s address below—with the ex ception of a quotation from a report, which is summarized —as a permanent record of this town’s interest in the college proposal at this time.) Nothing in a long. jsuch excitement, such enthusiasm I and such high hope as recent news that our town might pos sibly be the site for a new con solidated Presbyterian College. 1 am proud to report that local Presbyterians as well as your Town Council and civic groups have lost not a moment’s time in prfeparing for this possibility. All of us are immensely enthusiastic about this golden opportunity and we feel very decidedly that Southern Pines with all its charms and all its assets can be called a “college town just wait- \ ing for a college to come along.” So many citizens want to know just how matters stand with re gard to the new college, and just what we can do both individually and collectively, that WEEB is kindly permitting me to review long time the entire matter in these few has aroused in Southern Pines minutes. Here therefore are the Robbins Discount Honse MY VACATION SALE i YOU DON'T NEED CASH — WE OFFER TERMS AT LOW SALE PRICES ! LOOK THESE OVER SPECIAL MAYTAG FULLY AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC WASHER; regular $319.95 <3^^ HOTPOINT REFRIGERATOR — Shelf in door; food locker across top; $14S.0S HOTPOINT DEEP FREEZE—17.2 O Q Q Q C cu. ft.; reg. $499.95; now ^ iSl O l7e €7 O HOTPOINT 26.1 cu. ft, DEEP FREEZE, reg. $695.00; only '' HOTPOINT ELECTRIC RANGE; fully automatic; reg. $289.95. only HOTPOINT % Ton AIR CONDI- <|1 OQ TIONER; reg. $289.95; only WE DELIVER. SERVICE AND FULLY GUARANTEE ALL APPLIANCES WE SELL FREE 5-Piece Chrome Dinette Set Brand New. No obligation. Just come in and Register. Robbins Discount House Pines and Moore County will take all reasonable steps to have forceful member of our com munity named to this board of trustees. Such a person would have the vital role of being our spokesman as well as our eyes and our ears within the board of trustees. The new board of trustees would then name a group to ac tually select the campus site lor the new college. At the same time, 1e. Blue; W. Lamont Brown, A. Presbyterians of N. C. would be p. Dawson; Mrs. Valerie Nichol- ROBBINS. N. C. Near Robbins Mill Phone 3753 facts up to now concerning the proposed new Presbyterian Col lege: Foundation Study In 1953 the Ford Foundation granted to the Presbyterian Synod of North Carolina the sum of $50,000 to permit a broad study of Presbyterian educational insti tutions in North Carolina, A group of 30 outstanding Ptesbyte- ria’ns from throughout the State was convened as the Synod’s Committee on Educational Insti tutions. Many of this group of 30 people like Dr. Warner L. Hall of Charlotte, Mrs. Julian B. Hu- taff of Fayetteville, and Mr. Hal bert M. Jones of Laurinburg—are well known to us in Southern Pines and are our friends. In turn, this committee of 30 selected an outstanding panel of professional educators to study the education al problem. This panel included Dean Francis C. Rosecrance of New York University; Dr. John O. Gross, executive secretary of the general board of education for the Methodist Church; Dr John D. Millett, now president of Miami University of Ohio; Dr. Sarah Blanding, president of Vas- sar CO'llege; President Thomas A. Spragens of Stephens College, Misso-uri; Dr. • Oliver C. Carmi chael. now President of the Uni versity of Alabama; Dr. Roger P. McCutcheon, dean of the gradu ate school of Tulane University; and Dr. Donald C. Agnew, former president of Coker College and now secretary of the Southern Assn, of Schools and Colleges. This imposing panel, and the committee as a whole, have now concluded their study and their full 100-page report was publish* ed four weeks ago. The report recommends many changes among Presbyterian schools and colleges of N. C. Report Svunmarized (Editor’s Note: On the radio, Mr. Gilmore read at length from this report which recommends; The consolidation “in the south east quadrant of the state” of Flora Macdonald College, Peace College and Presbyterian Junior College. That the Synod establish a board of trustees which shall have control of the institutions and merge them at the earliest possible date; that the newly es- ablished board w'buld select a site, plan for the proposed college and prosecute a program to se cure the necessary funds. That in the interim period the colleges would continue to oper ate at their present locations. That the Synod must raise ade quate funds for the establishment of the necessary institutions, noting that five million dollars ig needed as a minimum and that the three institutions would bring into the merger assets amounting approximately to one-third of the initial requirement; and that the Synod authorize and support a general Synod-wide campaign for not less than two million dollars. Mr. Gilmore’s address continues with the next paragraph.) Acceptance Expected This special report will be pre sented to the Presbyterian Synod meeting in Barium Springs on July 12. Presumably the report will be accepted and the recommenda tions adopted, because there seems to be widespread accept ance of its proposals; but the ac tion, of course, will not be def- inite until the middle of July. | challenged to raise $5 million as If and when the Presbyterians'| the minimum backlog for starting of N. C. accept the report, they construction of the school build- then must name a board of trus- ings, and as you noted in ^e of- tees for the proposed new college, ficial report it is thought that up We already have assurance that to o-ne-third of this total can be the Presbyterians of Southern raised from sale of the present as sets at the 3 campuses to be con solidated. What's Been Done Here To keep pace with these devel opments, the following things have been done: 1. The Town Council this week named a small action committee to plan a course of action designed to bring this new school to Southern Pines. On this committee are the following: A. L. Burney, chairman; Walter son; Harry K. Smyth and Voit Gilmore. This committee will meet without delay. It is called a “nucleus^ committee” because as our community effort to attract the college rolls into high gear, the Town Council visualizes en larging the committee to include outstanding leaders of aU Moore County and the Sandhills. For the moment, the nucleus group will collect and sift all available information about the college merger; it will see that the state’s Presbyterian leaders are informed of our town’s en thusiastic interest and informed of our impressive attractions; it will see that the assets of South ern Pines are listed and emphasiz- !ed—such things as our rich Scot tish Presbyterian background, so •important to all Presbyterians and so well preserved and document ed by the Moore Co. Historical Society; such 'things as our fine public school system, made better than average county schools by reason of our local school tax supplement, at which practice teaching would be possible; such cultural advantages as our fine churches, our outstanding library, our Sandhills Music Assn, pro grams; such things as our recog nized superiority in sports—golf, tennis, riding, huntir^ and jump ing; such things as our fine transr portation service, our strategic lo cation' on U. S. 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