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

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1969 - TEN YEARS In the beginning Asheville Industrial Education Center had its beginning in 1959 when a bond was issued to locate two buildings on Victoria Road. Mr. Thomas W. Simpson assumed duties as director of the center in 1 960 and is its president today. Plans were completed and classes began in 1961. With the exception of Practical Nursing, all curriculums were housed in two functional buildings on a nineteen acre tract of land owned by the Asheville City Board of Education. In 1963 the Industrial Education Centers of North Carolina upgraded other types of edu- cation facilities through an act of the General Assembly. The Center immediately stepped forward into the new title and status of Asheville- Buneombe Technical Institute. This was granted in January, 1964, along with the right to award Associate in Applied Science Degrees to students completing the prescribed twenty-one month curriculums.

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W. W. SHOPE Chairman Ml 0 », Board of Trustees Left to right : Joseph E. Belton , Ernest Mills, John M. fyijnolds, John W. Erichson, W.W. 5hope, John M. Barnes , William M. Morgan, J. Gerald Cowan, Coke Candler, Herbert Coman Hot pictured: John H. Giezentanntr, LEZerfoss T 5

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Governor Terry Sanford on campus. - TEN YEARS A third building, with a design similar to the original two, was completed later in 1964. In June of the same year, the transfer of administrative jurisdic- tion from the Asheville City Board of Education to the local Board of Trustees was completed. In 1965 three extension units of the Institute were approved and later obtained independent status. The class of 1965 was addressed by the Honorable Luther Hodges as he visited the campus and gradua- tion ceremony. 7