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Cats Put Cullowhee On Map See Sports Page ®W3ife$tern Carolinian "Voice of the Students" Botner Answers Editorial Read 'Feedback' VOL. XXVIII, NO. 21 Friday, March 22, 1963 Cullowhee, N. C. Reid Lauds Team Assembly Recognizes Returning Cagers "Something happened in athletics last week which brought to us honor and recognition. Now our school is known all over the nation," said Paul A. Reid, President of WCC, as he spoke at an assembly held last Monday to recognize the basketball team for their second place finish in the NAIA tournament. After the assembly was called to order by student body president L. D. Hyde, the Western Carolina band played under the direction of Aaron Hyatt as the cheerleaders led the basketball learn onto the gym floor. After the presentation of the team, L. D. Hyde introduced President Reid who in turn introduced Coach Jim Gudger. Gudger began by saying that "three years ago we started with a team of seven freshmen and 3 sophomores. People said I was crazy and at times I agreed with *hem, but with the help of the students we were able to go as i'ar as we did." Gudger brought to the attention of the student body that the team's record for this year was 28 wins and 7 losses, making a total of 60 wins over a two year period. Mel Gibson tied with Reid from Grambling for top scorer in the NAIA tournament and Tommy Lavelle was second to Jackson in rebounds. Gibson made first team all-tournament and Lavelle made second team all- tournament. Other members of the team were very close to receiving awards. "I got a telegram one night," Gudger said, "that wasn't signed and only had on it 'Hold 'em Cats, we're on the way'." GucTger quoted the Manager of the auditorium in Kansas City as saying "Express our thanks to the student body for one of the nicest groups of students we've ever had at this tournament." He then thanked everyone for their support and recognized Frank Denton as one of the most vigorous supporters of the Catamounts that he knew. He ended by saying "We're gonna get that whole thing for you next time!" Stedman Mitchell, cafeteria manager, was then introduced. He said he "happened to notice a few other things besides basketball." Mitchell went to Kansas City with Frank Brown and Hugh Battle in a plane piloted by W. B. Dillard. Mitchell commented on the obvious differences in the Cullowhee and Kansas City airport and stated that upon getting to Kansas City he "immediately became mayor of Cullowhee." At the close of his talk, Mitchell presented Coach Gudger with a cigar and a genuine ten-gallon Stetson. President Reid told the student body that "Our boys are the first to go beyond the quarter finals from District 26 in the NAIA tournament." He then stated that a bill was being put through the General Assembly to express appreciation for what the basketball team did in Kansas City. During the program Hyde in troduced the cheerleaders and gave special recognition to Miss June Peterson for the work she has done. Betty Ann Barry, head chearleader spoke on behalf of the cheerleaders in thanking the student body for their support and for sending them to Kansas City. COACH JIM GUDGER RECEIVED A STANDING OVATION from students and players as he took the podium at Monday's assembly to welcome the basketball team back to Cullowhee. (Photo by Quarles) R. Kennedy Will Speak At Lyceum For the 1963 Spring Lyceum, students have requested a speaker on outstanding world aftairg. Plans are underway by Governor Terry Sanford, Jackson County representative Lacy Thornburs, and college officials to bring' the entire North Carolina legislature to Western Caro- in early May. 'Tentative plans are for United States Attorney General Robert Kennedy to speak to a joint session of the legislature which will be held in Reid Gymnasium. If Mr. Kennedy is unable to keep this engagement, the joint session will be addressed by Governor Terry Sanford. Arrangements have already been made to fly the legislative body to Asheville and transport them to Cullowhee by bus. Although this event is in lieu of a spring lyceum, it will not be an expense to the college because it will be financed by public spirited citizens. Student organizations such as the Marshals Club, YDC, and YRC will be asked to act as guides to this group while they are on campus. Loren Withers, Pianist Free Concert Scheduled Wednesday Night In Hoey School Statistics The following statistics were compiled by the United States Office of Education, and deal with adults who are attending public schools: More than 3,500,000 adults attend classes or other program activities offered by their local public schools. The cost for adult education in the public schools is y% of 1 per cent of the cost of public and secondary education in the United States. Approximately 449,000 adults in public school adult education are finishing elementary or high school. More than 2,500 adults receive diplomas each year from high schools in Los Angeles, California. Loren Withers, Head of piano, instruction ac Duke Unh will present a concert here next Wednesday evening at 8:00 in Hoey Auditorium. The concert is free of charge, sponsored by the Music Department, and the public is invited. This is the second such concert to be sponsored by the Music Department this year. Mr. Withers is a widely known concert pianist, and has appeared in most of the major cities in the United States. He has been described by James Friskin as "An artist with fine technical and interpretative power at the service of a progressive musical mind." Withers has earned highly favorable reviews in newspapers in Washington, D. C, Jacksonville Florida, Tulsa, Oklahoma, Durham, North Carolina, and many other cities. Frequent orchestral engagements have emphasized the core concert repertoire of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Saint - Saens, Tchaikovsky, Ravel, Gershwin, and Bartok. Other chronicled criticisms of Withers present "an artist of vitality as well as depth of understanding." As an associate professor at I Duke. Withers guides his studio ter class preparations, senior recitals and performances with the Duke Symphony Orchestra. His regular class teaching includes Piano Pedagogy and Literature. Each year Withers accepts a limited number of college teachers and private teachers and private studio teachers for advanced coaching. Missouri born, Withers took a degree in music at the University of Kansas before pursuing further academic work at New York University. He was a scholarship student at the Juilliard School of Music where he earned both the B.S. and M.S. Degrees. His advanced piano training under Ernest Hutcheson, Fred Klos- terman, Carl Frledberg and James Friskin culminated in a Carnegie Recital Hall Concert prior to leaving New York City to come to Duke, where he has been since 1949. Since coming to Duke, Withers has established himself as one of the finest pianists in the South. He comes to Western Carolina College at the expense and under the sponsorship of the Music Department. Merchants Contribute Fans Loose Purse Strings, Send Cheerleaders To K.C. Young Speaks To Senators On Bookstore Kenneth Young of the Business department spoke to the Student Senate at the last regular meeting on the possibilities of obtaining a bookstore. After the discussion the Si unanimously to complete the investigation on the possible locations and to take immediate action in securing the bookstore. At the same meeting L. D. Hyde, Student Body president, asked the Senate to draw up a resolution to the basketball team, Coach Jim Gudger, and the cheerleaders in honor of their success in the NAIA tournament. Tom Henson, Linda Houts, and L. D. Hyde compose the committee which is to draw up the resolution. TO THE VICTORS GO THE GIRLS, AND off they went to Kansas City on Thursday afternoon. Cheerleaders and chaperons pictured above are, left to right, Kim Cashion, Susan Hull, Jo Hill, Mrs. Gudger, Vonnie Womble, (L. D. Hyde, President of Student Body), Betty Ann Berry, June Peterson, and Teresa Roberts. (Photo by Thornburg) State Proposes System Of Community Colleges Institute Offers Academic Program The Institute of European Studies has announced new admissions procedures and applications deadlines for its academic year programs in Vienna, Paris, and Freiburg, West Germany. Application periods for all three programs will open officially on Monday, March 4, at IES Headquarters, 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago 1, 111. Deadlines for applications have been moved from June 15 to June 5 for the programs, beginning next August and September. The Institute's admission committee will review all applications simultaneously after the deadline and mail notices of acceptance or rejection June 15. Institute officials said the changes were made because applications from qualified students as applications are received would entail rejecting some better qualified students who applied closer to the deadline date, they said. The Institute's program at the University of Vienna combines English-taught liberal French Club Will Sponsor 'Adult7 Movie The French Club Is sponsoring a French movie PASSIONATE SUMMER to be shown in Hunter Gallery at 7:30 p.m., March 27. Although the movie is in French, it has English subtitles. Mr. William Easterling of the Foreign Language department has said that this is a most unusual film and strictly adult entertainment. Tickets may be purchased for 25c from any member of the French Club or from the language laboratory. The state of North Carolina will sponsor a program to encourage and promote education beyond high schooL The measure proposes to update three existing junior colleges, to erect a system of comprehensive community colleges, and to "re-define" the consolidated university. According to Dr. William Archie, director of the Higher Education Board, the bill's three principal parts were the results of "deliberations on the crucial issues" that face higher education today. Dr. Archie added that if the General Assembly approves this bill, "for the first time North Carolina would have a solid system of higher education for every capable boy and girl." The existing junior colleges at Asheville, Charlotte, and Wilmington will be expanded in order to utilize these facilities to the utmost. The major part of the bill sets up a system of community colleges to be located all across the state. These new schools have been referred to as the "workingman's univer sit y." They are designed principally to reach the "blue collar" class and will offer educational opportunities to the more than 31,000 students expected to be applying to colleges by 1970. D. Welch Warren Will Head YRC D. Welch Warren was elected president of the Young Republican Club at the meeting held Thursday, March 14. Other officers elected were Joel Stevenson, Vice President; Button Mc- Clure, Secretary; Ralph Gibson, Teasurer; and Bernie Babbs, State Committeeman. Before the elections were held, the club advisor, Mr. Frank J. S. Maturo, made a speech pointing out many or the failures and achievements of the local YRC. Kale To Preach Lenten Sermons Dr. William Arthur Kale, and Director of Field Work in the Divinity School of Duke University, will present a series of Lenten sermons at the Cullowhee Methodist Church on March 24-27. The topics are as follows: Sunday morning, March 24 — "Let the Cross Be the Cross;" Sunday night — "The Cross and Man's Predicament;" Monday night, March 25 — "The Cross and Man's Hope;" Tuesday night, March 26 — "The Cross and God's Judgment;" and Wednesday night — "The Cross and God's Love." All of the evening services will begin at 7:00 p.m. Umbrella Paradise Greatest average annual rainfall in the United States is 156 inches, in Wynoochee, Washington. Before going to Duke, Dr Kale served as pastor of Methodist Churches in Hickory, Shelby, and High Point. Dr. Kale is a past president of the North Carolina Council of Churches and is now a member of the National Council of Churches. He did research at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has preached in nine British cities under the sponsorship of the British Council of Churches. During the month of June, 1959, he was guest minister at the American Protestant Church, The Hague, Netherlands. What's a basketball game without cheerleaders? And that's exactly what the campus of Western Carolina asked when I heir champion basketball team took off for Kansas City. But little did they know that following close behind were six energetic cheerleaders, determined to stick behind the Catamounts all the way. The take-off from the Asheville airport proved to be an old story for a few of the girls, but the remaining ones closed their eyes in frightful excitement and — off they went. Hospitality seemed to be the tradition in Kansas City. Teresa Roberts, a sophomore from Jacksonville, Florida commented: "The people in Kansas City were the nicest to us of any place we have ever been. Anything we needed was ours." Other comments showed the generosity and friendliness of. the hotel in which they stayed. Even when "Back the Cats" appeared on the walls of the halls, the personnel proved to be very understanding. The group from Cullowhee is reported to have been labeled one of the nicest groups that has ever stayed at Park East Hotel. Good sportsmanship and tremendous school spirit seemed to be the key assets of the tournament play offs. Kim Cashion, a junior from Kings Mountain, reported: "Our team had very good sportsmanship toward the other teams as well as the fans. The other teams were real nice, but sometimes became aggravated with us because our one hundred fans were louder than their two thousand." Perhaps the most surprising occurrence of the entire tournament was the turnout of WCC students who had traveled 850 miles to show the team they were behind them 100 per cent. Betty Ann Berry, chief cheerleader, made this remark: "We knew of every new group that came in from Cullowhee, because they almost always got in touch with us. The cheerleaders and I will never be able to say thank you enough to the entire student body, whether they were in Kansas City or Cullowhee, for all the help and support they gave us. To sum it up, the spirit was tremendous." And, so a championship basketball team returned to Cullowhee with a record of which the entire campus student body, and faculty is proud. The decision to send the Cheerleaders to Kansas City was a sudden one. On Thursday Lyceum Attraction arts and general studies courses, intensive German language instruction, regular German - taught university courses for those competent In German, and supplementary lectures and seminars. It is open to juniors and sophomores. There is no language requirement. The "Das Deutsche Jahr" program is conducted for juniors only at the University of Frie- burg. It stresses political science, philosophy, literature, history and German. All courses are taught in German. Tutorials have been added to aid U.S. students in preparing for classes and examinations. The Paris Honors program admits outstanding juniors and a few sophomores. It emphasized contemporary European studies and offers qualified students opportunities for study at the University of Paris and other Paris schools. All classes are taught in French. Each program includes two field-study trips in Western Europe with Institute lecturers. SCENE FROM "ENDGAME," ONE OF THREE WCC STU- dent-directed plays entered in tomorrow's District Drama Festival to be held in the Little Theatre. Pictured above are Duane Oliver, left, and Bill Raoul. "Endgame" is directed by Will Hipps. Also in the cast are Leonard Caldwell II and Sue Anne Bryson. For further details concerning the Drama Festival, which the public may attend admission free, see page 5. (Photo by William G. Smith) USAF Band To Perform At WCC '63 Homecoming The Lyceum Committee has voted unanimously to have the United States Air Force Band as one of the Homecoming attractions October 12, 1963. If possible, the USAF band will ride in the Homecoming parade in its special bus, perform during the crowning of the Homecoming Queen, give a two hour concert from 3 to 5 p.m. in Reid Gymnasium, and give a 20-minute performance before the game. Air Force regulations prevent them from taking part in halftime. Mr. Gib Sandefer, manager of all armed services bands, wrote the Lyceum Committee and requested a booking at Western Carolina. He is interested in cooperating on this date in October, 1963. The Lyceum Committee consists of six faculty members and three student members. They are: Mr. J. Crum, Mr. C. G. Chrisman, Mr. Hugh Battle, Miss June Peterson, Mr. Aaron Hyatt, and Mrs. Lilian Buchanan, chairman. The student members, who morning hasty plans were made, and the group left that afternoon at 1:00. Funds to finance the trip were borrowed from student funds. Radio Station WMSJ in Sylva and Sylva merchants contributed to help pay the money back, and ironically enough, one of the first contributors was an alumnus of Lenoir Rhyne College. Other funds were raised by charging admission to hear the Thursday night broadcast of the WCC- Fort Hayes game. Also accompanying the group was L. D. Hyde, Student Body President. are appointed by the Senate, are Gary Ramsey, Joan Davis, and Jerry Walker, who is to be replaced because he is now student teaching. The Committee has two media of communication with the student body. The first is through the student members of the committee who serve as a liaison group. They have been part of the committee for more than ten years at Mrs. Buchanan's request. Students should tell these members what they want as a lyceum show. The second is the suggestion box in the library by means of which all students may let their wishes be known. It is located on the main floor of the library near the glass partition. Mrs. Buchanan has placed there brochures, which she has received from booking agents over the country, to give students an idea of what sort of entertainment is available. Slips of paper have been provided for the Students' convenience. ID Cards Planned For Athletes In Tokyo Olympics All foreign athletes and officials participating in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games will en. ter Japan with identification cards instead of a regular visa to simplify entry formalities. The use of ID cards was basically agreed upon by the government at a Tokyo Olympic Preparatory Council meeting. It will be formally approved at a Cabinet meeting April 2. Well, Somebody Has To Be Last An organization that seems determined to remain listed last in the Manhattan phone directory calls itself the Zzzyzzy Ztamp Ztudioz Co.

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.

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  • Date original: 1963-03-22;
  • Date digitized: 2017-10-02
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  • Dimension: 21.5" x 16"
  • Pages: 6 pages
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  • Cullowhee (N.C.) -- Newspapers
  • Universities and colleges -- North Carolina -- Cullowhee -- Newspapers
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  • Jackson County (N.C.)
  • Cullowhee (N.C.)
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