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  • Publications (documents)
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• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
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  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1958-01-11_Vol22_No08_06

THE WESTERN CAROLINIAN Saturday, January 11, 1958 FIA Club To Elect President The first meeting of the Fine and Industrial Arts Club for the new year will be held on January 26, 7:30 p.m., in room 115 Stillwell. All FIA majors are invited. Start the new year right by attending this meeting. All old members are urged to attend for the matter of electing two new officers to fill vacancies this quarter. A new president and a new secretary will be elected. Th program will be an interesting movie entitled "Aluminum by Revier." Refreshments will be served following the meeting. Veterans Club The dance given by the Veterans Club on Saturday, December 7, was such a success that another is being planned by the club for this month. Posters will be put up announcing the next meeting of the club. Attendance by all veterans is urged. PE Club At the last Physical Education Club meeting, representatives were chosen to attend the State Physical Education Convention held at Wake Forest College in Winston-Salem. The members to attend were Betty Jo Clary, Ray Volrath, Charles Koontz, Bill Embler, James Penly and Jo Coth- ran, accompanied by the sponsors, Miss Helen Hartshorn and Dr. Quinn Constantz. The theme for this convention Campus Seens Suggestion for a new complaint column in the Western Carolinian — o - bitch - you - ary. Bob Searle walking nonchantly through the college shop with a worn silk stocking hanging out of his hip pocket. Mike Jolly trying to sign up a fiddler from the Atlanta Symphony for the square dance club. A very studious male Who's Who's member going by the name of Smuggle. Screams and blood curdling cries from freshmen and sophomores as was Physical Fitness. Everyone enjoyed the meeting and derived a greater understanding of the problem of physical fitness for the American people. Also, at the meeting, the club decided to buy club pins. After the business, we enjoyed a film titled "They Grow So Fast." The meeting was then adjourned. FBLA All members are urged to pay their dues at once. These dues ($2.00) can be paid to Henry Teal, Eddie Goforth or Bill Cloninger. Plans are being made now for the proposed field trip to Atlanta, Ga., which will be the latter part of February or early March. BELK'S DEPT. STORE Dial JU 6-2015 SYLVA, N. C. <> 100% Wool FLANNEL and TWEED SUITS Short - Regular - Long $29.95 each 100% Orion and 100% Lamb's Wool Sweaters Wide Variety of Color—Sizes S - M - L — $5.95 each ARCHDALE Shirts, Socks, Ties and Underwear >♦♦♦»♦♦♦< College Students Will Be Welcome at CLARK'S RESTAURANT Located on Sylva-Franklin Highway Good food, music and dancing We Cater To Group Events— Phone JU 6-4320 News In Brief Reid Was Real Gone President and Mrs. Paul A. Reid spent the Christmas vacation in Florida and according to Dr. Reid, they had a most wonderful time. They traveled down the east coast to Key West and then back to Miami where they boarded a jet commercial airliner for Nassau in the Bahamas. Four days later they returned to Miami and traveled back up the west coast of Florida and on to Cullowhee. Graduate Courses Five graduate courses are being offered on the campus during winter quarter, according to Dr. W. Newton Turner, director of the graduate division. On Monday night, Dr. Paul J. Ritter will teach a course in Radio and TV Education. On Wdnesdays, Guidance in the School will be taught by Professor Taylor Hus- .kins. Foundations of Modern Education will be taught by Dr. M. B. Morrill on Friday night and Dr. C. D. Killian will teach a course in The Gifted Child at the same time. On Saturdays, Dr. R. W. Ainsley will teach a course in General Administration. Other courses are being taught in eight Western North Carolina lowns. Wood Honored Baxter Wood, vice president of ihe student body, has been elected worshipful master of East LaPorte Lodge No. 358, Ancient, Free and Accepted Masons. Off And On Campus station WWOO is back on the air after being closed down to make repairs, according to Bob Dyer, Radio Club president. The .station now broadcasts 17 hours a day, beginning at 7:30 a.m. A listing of daily programs for the winter quarter will soon be complied and posted, according to Keith Hundley, station manager. No Tenderfoot Ben Edwards, WCC senior, will receive a "Scouter's Award" at the Annual Appreciation Dinner of the Daniel Boone Council, Boy Scouts of America, to be held in the Battery Park Hotel in Asheville on Monday night. The award is for three years work as an adult leader, including training, performance, service and tenure. Capital Cats Mr. R. C. Sutton, Business Manager, and Mr. Hugh Battle, Bursar, were in Raleigh this week to receive instructions on the details Attention, Mr. Motorist A letter addressed to "Dear Mr. Motorist" arrived at the Mirror- News. "I am not writing this to you to remind you a|l over again," the letter said, "but to all motorists now that school has begun. "I want to prevent the tragedy that we have shared together — a mother and you, Mr. Motorist. "That day three sun-tanned little faces smiled as they waved me a happy goodby and so importantly went on their way to school. I wanted to call them back to tell them how lonesome it would be. "Mr. Motorist, I wanted to kiss them once more—then I saw you take that corner, tires screaming, car out of control. "What was your hurry? Were you late for work? Were you angry at someone? "Surely not my three. I am sure you would not want to run your Howell Makes Brass Gordon Howell Commissioned a Marine second screaming tires over their happy lieutenant December 14 at the faces intentionally, erasing for ever the smiles they had for me. "But, Mr. Motorist, children are very forgiving in life and—I'm sure—in death. They would, if they could, pat your hand'and feel sad that because of one tragic moment you are left to live over and over again how your love of speed took three lives. "I don't hate you anymore. I feel sorry for you. I can still see Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, Virginia was Gordon E. Howell, a former graduate of Western Carolina. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne C. Howell of Charlotte and is married to the former Miss Laverne Smith of Ferguson. To earn his commission, Howell completed a ten-week officer candidate course at Quantico, along with other applicants from the nation's colleges and former enlisted LAFF-A-LW7 © mi. KING IEATURKS SYNDICATE. !** , WO&LD tlCKTI RCSKaVtD "Get the guy who just left my office ... he walked out with my umbrella." those smiling little faces as they Marines. wave me goodby." | He is now enrolled in the nine- The letter was signed. Under monih officer basic school the signature this postscript. ! Quantico, becoming a qualified in- "Another year. And once again fantrv piatoon leader. your flowers arrive. They are j beautiful. Thank you." | Charles Neiswender to investigate The newspaper sent reporter He talked with a close friend of of filling out applications for funds to be appropriated by the next General Assembly. No Vacancy Both men's dormitories are full to the brim this quarter, according to Mrs. Elsie Brown, housing officer. There are, however, several empty rooms in both Madison and Moore Dormitories. Watch For That Bug According to several doctors, the Asian Flu is due on WCC's campus some time in February. Head Nurse Marlene Stanley urges students to come by for flu shots as soon as possible. The vaccine Is now at the infirmary. the letter writer. She told him the letter was written four years ago on the first anniversary of the tragedy. It was written but never intended to be mailed, to the man who was driving the car. The friend sent the letter to the paper, which printed it Thursday. He still sends the mother flowers on each anniversary of the children's deaths. And the mother? She couldn't write a letter now. For in her mind she still waves goodby to the smiling faces of her children. The tragedy was too much. She is in a mental hospital, hopelessly insane. HOOPER MOTOR CO. PONTIACS BUICK AUTHORIZED SERVICE Dial JU 6-2012 Sylva, N. C. Walker's Drive-In Cleaners SEWING, MENDING, ALTERATIONS, and HAT-BLOCKING EXCLUSIVE STA-NU FINISHING Contact Bob Ractor in Reynolds and Robinson, Norma Selers in Moore, John Carswell in Boodleville for Your Service. JU 6-4210 8YLVA Intersection Hwy. 19A-23 - 107 Charwood Barbecue "Where There's Delight In Every Bite" Pit Cooked Barbecue and Other Foods Monday-Saturday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Closed Sundays East Main Street Sylva, N. C. ►♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦»♦♦♦♦< Dependable Jewelers Jewelry, Watch Repairing and Dependable Service 8YLVA, N. C. they meet addled Addie. Two popular sophomore girls standing next to the 'bad corner' sign trying to catch a ride to Sylva. The Student English Seminar turning into a modified square dance club at its last meeting. Sheepish looks on certain tall boys faces after a Catawba incident. Edlyn Pate stepping in a trash can as she looked at Coach Robinson with open admiration in her eyes. Horrified expressions on student's faces as they inspected their annual pictures. A new recruit joining the "Troopers" and he brought along his own mascot - a teddy bear - "Yore dadgum right!" A certain mature student dominating a certain education class. "Dink" and "Zebe" charging into their room filled with 10,123 wadded 'newspapers. Eighteen boys coming back into the dormitory about 1:30 in the morning with frost on their chins. A big, black '51 Oldsmobile on campus with 17 telephone receivers in its trunk. The fabulous song, "Temptation" sung by a well known campus humorist. A member of the English department drastically disappointed because he wasn't selected to be sent to the moon. President Reid standing in the cafeteria until 2:00 p.m. for ham burgers and cold beans. A certain hearty female who would like to ride in a certain husky's Olds. Girls on fourth floor Madison entertaining two mice, a snake, and a dog named skip. This article being typed late at night after the rest of the news is ready to go to press. 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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University’s student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.

• Creator
  • Western Carolina Teachers College
• Format
  • Publications (documents)
• Type
  • Text
• Date
  • Date original: 1958-01-11;
  • Date digitized: 2017-09-26
• Extent
  • Dimension: 21.5" x 16"
  • Pages: 6 pages
• Subject - Topic
  • College student newspapers and periodicals
  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
• Location
  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
• Source institution
  • Western Carolina University
• Source Collection
  • WCU Students Newspapers Collection
• Identifier
  • HL_WesternCarolinian_1958-01-11_Vol22_No08
• Repository
  • Western Carolina University Hunter Library