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

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Board of Trustees J. Gerald Cowan Chairman Wachovia Bank Asheville, N. C. The Hon. Coke Candler Chairman, Buncombe County Commissioners Ernest Mills Mills Mfg. Company Asheville, N. C. W. W. Shope Vice-Chairman Shope Furniture Co. Weaverville, N. C. Herbert Coman Beacon Mfg. Company Swannanoa, N. C. John H. Giezentanner Attorney-At-Law Asheville, N. C. John M. Barnes Champion Paper Co. Canton, N. C. John M. Reynolds Reynolds Storage Co. Asheville, N. C. William Morgan American Enka Corp. Enka, N. C. 4 Joseph Belton Stephens Lee High School Asheville, N. C. W. B. Dillard Dillard Const. Co. Sylva, N. C. Dr. L. F. Zerfoss Asheville- Biltmore College Enka, N. C.

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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.

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President THOMAS W. SIMPSON The gentleman silhouetted against the sky is witnessing another step in the steady growth of Asheville- Buncombe Technical Institute which he has so constantly sought and so steadily promoted. The president of this institution is shown above engaged in the pleasant task of acting as master of ceremonies at the ground-breaking ceremony for D Building, which will house our motel-hotel complex, our business educa- tion facilities, our library and a student lounge. Only on occasions such as this does the unremitting drive toward a bigger and better Asheville Tech appear on the surface so that the public may see what has been --and is being--achieved. All of us who are connected with this institution share the satisfaction which we know Mr. Simpson must have felt on the occasion depicted above. 5