Asheville Buncombe Technical Community College - Yearbook (Asheville, NC)

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Dedication i , , TO HARVEY LEE HAYNES Often the image the public has of the per- son involved in the field of education is of some disembodied, dry-as-dust mind which exists only to mold the younger generation to some unrealistic, humorless pattern and to preside over teaching robots dispensing color- less information. Neighborhood trick-or- treatersdo not swarm about the door of such a person. Nor does such a man build up a cub pack of a hundred and forty boys. These achievements call for human warmth. Such warmth this man brings to everything he does, to his church work, his dedication to the task of seeing that the students of this institution benefit by the best possible curriculum for their needs, taught as ably as possible and in his every contact with instructors and students. To this man, Harvey Lee Haynes, the staff of MOUNTAIN TECH dedicates this year ' s volume. 2

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History and Foreword Asheville- Buncombe Technical Institute, represents to Asheville and the surrounding communities a step in progress toward and unsurpassed educational center and rates as one of the best in the South. At the end of the school year 1961-62 there was a total of 107 classes, with an enrollment of 2,046 students. At the end of the school year 1965-66 there was an enrollment of 8,356 students in all pro- grams. In 1966 there is a record enrollment of around 9,000 students. The physical plant has grown from 2 buildings on 19 acres of land, to 3 buildings on 25 acres of land. On October 12, 1966, ground breaking exercises were held fora fourth building of its kind to house North Carolina ' s first complete hotel-motel complex. This complex will house four kitchens, a library, model hotel - motel rooms and 14 classrooms. At this event the Institute was honored to have Mr. John Sweeny, Co- chairman of the Appalachian Regional Commission; Mr. Woodrow Jones, North Carolina State Representative; the Honorable Roy A. Taylor, Congressman from the Eleventh District, and other distinguished visitors. Perhaps not of the same magnitude, but still of major importance a school seal has been offically adopted by the Board of Trustees. Mr. James Ellis Anderson, Head of the Chemistry Department, conceived the overall design submitted by Mr. Carroll Bridges, Head of the Drafting and Design Department; Mr. Robert Barnes, local artist; and Herman Freeman, a student at the institute. Receiving much praise, this design has been used for the past years on the cover of the Mountain Tech, the school yearbook, and on class rings. This seal being an oval nameplate surrounding a replica of the front of A building on a scenic background of Asheville and Buncombe County extending to and including the skyline of Mount Pisgah. For the second year Asheville-Buncombe Technical Institute participated in the Christ- mas Parade entering a float designed by Cline Float Company and featuring Miss Jennifer White, winner of the Asheville Tech ' s Miss Asheville Tech beauty contest and the mem- bers of her court. This has been an outstanding year in the growth of Asheville Tech.