Tw Heel People & Issues,,, . . : •
Join the budget commission and see the state!'
By cuff Bine
SEEING NORTH CAROLINA. .•
A good guide to follow if you
want to see North Carolina from
the mountains to the seashore
would be to set out to visit the
state-owned institutions. In so do
ing you wiH get an excellent
view of the Tar Heel state.
* INSTITUTIONS . . . Among the
several state-owned institutions
visited by the Advisory Budget
Commission, of which the writer
is a member, last week was the
North Carolina -School for the
Deaf at Morganton. Ben E. Hoff
meyer is Superintendent of the
Institution and is dedicated to the
work of the school. He told us
that he had a brother who was
deaf, and wiien a boy he resolved
that his life’s work would be
with the dear.
The school has around 500
students and is oae of the larg
est in tbe nation-third largest
we believe. It to one af the few
schools for the deaf in the Uidt
ed States which has a full staff
of trained teachers for the deaf.
This is made possible through a
teacher training program winch is
nationally accredited,. and which
is affiliated with Appalachian
State Teachers College and Lenoir
Rhyne College. The school teaches
several vocations, with printing
being the most popular.
ORTHOPEDIC HOSPITALS . . .
We visited twd orthopedic hospi
tals last week, the N, C. Ortho
pedic Hospital at Gastonia and
the Asheville Orthopedic Hospital.
The Gastonia hospital was estab
lished many years ago and has
an average of about 160 patients.
The Asheville hospital was estab
lished a few years ago during a
polio epidemic.
H is not state-owned hot re
ceives |5MM per year state
support, as a grant-in-aid. It
averages abr-rt 36 patients per
day. Its marvelous what these
institutions are doing to help
crippled children.
COMMUNITY COLLEGES . . .
We visited two of the state's three
community colleges last week, the
Charlotte Community College and
the Asheville-Bitonore Communi
ty College. The thW one ie at
Wilmington which we will visit
this week. For years we have
been interested in the Community
College movement, feeling that it
is good and sound..
Community colleges, wffl la
our opinion, bring higher educa
tion within the reach of many
hoys and girts who are anshle
to ga away team home to con
done their schooling, Basic col
lege education can be provided
at a lower cost through com
munity colleges than through the
dormitory colleges.
Million-dollar building
for public health unit
is under construction i
By Jo* Mediin
A new home for the University
School of Public Health, provid
ed for by Tar Heel voters in a
bond issue last October, is now
taking shape..
The million dollar building Is
expected to be completed in 1962.
An additional $750,000 has been
earmarked by the Federal gov
ernment for research and labor
atory facilities in' the new struc
ture.
The four-story building is lo
cated on Pitts boro Road across
from the School of Medicine.
No more students
“The n§w building will give us
better working conditions and fa
cilities than we now have,” said
Dean of the School of Public
Health Edward G. McGavran.
“It will not give us sufficient
space to notably increase our
student body or faculty and staff.
"Wo are forced to give up
some of the frills of a now
building in order to obtain the
space we badly need,” Dean
McGavran said.
The Perfect Memento
of Chapel Hill
The Southern
Part of Heaven
By William Mead Prince
fear after year, this is Chapel
Hill's favorite bookl Most shops
charge $3.75.
Our Special
$2.49/
The Intimate
Bookshop
lit East Franklin St.
Open Till t P.M.
I “We hope for air conditioning,
| which we do not consider a frill,
but a necessity since we have a
large number of summer school
students,” he said.
About 150 full time regular
students are enrolled in the
School of Public Health each
year; Aside from this, some 700
attend summer school and regis
ter for short courses and exten
sion work.
<00 others from UNC
In addition to the above stu
dents, approximately 600 other
UNC students take courses in the
School of Public Health every
year. These students are mostly
from the other UNC schools in
the fields of health sciences . .
The school offers 10 differ
ent degrees ranging from a
Certificate in Public Health
Nursing to a Ph.D. degree,
which is the top rung in the
academic ladder.
The School of Public has over
500 graduates working in North
Carolina; there being at least one
in each of the state’s 100 coun
ties. It also has some 1,000 grad
uates holding positions in other
parts of the United States and
approximately 300 doing public
health work in foreign countries.
Today the school is housed in
the basement of the School of
Medicine and 13 other buildings
scattered over a radius of three
fourths of a mile.
59 full-time on fattrlty
The school presently maintain
a staff of 50 full time faculty
members, 29 part time faculty
members and other personnel.
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However, it .mast be admitted
that the community colleges do
not have the cutlunal life of a
campus with dormitories, fraterni
ties, gymnasiums and other
dungs which go with regular col
lege life. Hie community colleges
are operating on joint county and
state aid.
It was interesting to note teat
last week a formal plea for
State-supported community col
lege at Elizabeth City was made
by te Pasquotank County Board
of Education, to the State Board
of Higher Education. We suspect
you will see a great growth in
community colleges during the
•text several years.
ROG ER KESER ... Rep Roger
Kiser of Scotland County happened
te be in Boone 'last Friday when
the Advisory Budget Commission
was visiting Appalachian State
Teachers College, and attended
the meeting with the group.
Kiser told tee group teat if he
bad to choose between tee two,
teat be would prefer a child to be
teught in a poor building by a
good teacher, rateer than in e
good budding and a poor teacher.
He was of the opinion that quality
instructional service should not be
slighted in the interest of capital
improvements.
MLL COPELAND . . . It will
be hard to And a more ardent
supporter of Terry Sanford and
John Kennedy than Senator
Bffl Copeiana of Hertford Com*
ty. which has led some to sug
gest Copeland as chief of the
Kennedy-Joh noon drive for votes
in North Carolina this fail.
OLD SALEM . . .The Restora
tion of Old Salem in Winston
Salem is making great progress
and it is proving a most popular
place to visit, particularly for
school children. In magazines and
newspapers over the nation it has
received wide acclaim.
We think the one thing most in
torestng to us at Old Salem is die
Wachovia Musenm which honor*
a collectioo of local antiquities. Re
storation projects like Old Salem
are proving to be a great boon to
tourism in Tar HeeKa. Salem, a
Moravian settlement, wan found
ed in 1776. Ks well worth you
while to nee it:
Triangle Institute
end Dr. Olcun featured
in public works issue
An article on North Carolina's
Research Triangle Institute ap
pears in the current isue of “Pub
lic Works,” a national profes
sional journal devoted to sani
tary engineering.
The article is written by Dr.
George R. Herbert of Durham,
President of the Institute.
The introduction is written by
Dr. Daniel A. Okun, head of the
Department of Sanitary Engineer
ing of the University of North
Carolina School of Public Health.
Each issue of the journal uses
a photograph of an outstanding
person in the field of public
works on its front cover. The
cover of the current issue is de
voted to a picture of Dr. Okun,
who recently went to Holland
for a year of research and study.
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