Charlotte Country Day School - Postscript Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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and Workman's Compensation covered the injuries. lt would have been priceless to have been a mouse-in- the-corner when a claim was opened: Name..Age: ESO-Female Occupation: Teacher Injury: 2 sprained an- kles. How did the injury occur? Doing the May Pole Dance!!! May Day sort of faded away after that year. Mr. Howe came to Country Day from North Shore Country Day in 1955. Under his leadership the school population grew from 150 students to become a student body of 554. Dr. A. Emerson Johnson succeeded Mr. Howe as headmaster in July 1969-coming to us from North Cross School in Roanoke, Va. Under his leadership the school started the papenNork to accreditation Qno small jobj by SACS. There were meetings on top of meetings: there were forms to be filled out half-a-dozen times giv- ing the same information in six different ways. Yes, we had arrived! We were now part of the great Red Tape Brigade. Also in 1969 the Board of Trustees appointed a Planning Committee charged with projecting curricu- lum, space needs, enrollment and capital fund require- rnents for the decade of the 70's. This report was adopt- ed unanimously by the Board and is contained in a clocument know as Aims. While Dr. Johnson was at Country Day the question of dress code arose-a very conservative man--he had insisted that the faculty have a dress code and set a good example for students. Ladies would not wear pants suits and men would wear ties and jackets. Much harder to control, however was the student dress. jThey really had no specific dress code.j This poor man inherit- ed the mini-skirt era, and academics were more or less put on the back burner while teachers ran around with rulers measuring skirt lengths and sending young ladies home who were judged to be dressed inappropriately for an academic atmosphere!! Wonder if Dolly Hickman still has that ruler? In 1970 NAIS was to be held in Atlanta. lt is very seldom so near, and Dr. Johnson decided as many fac- ulty as wanted to could attend. About 8 or 10 car loads planned to attend, but Mother Nature had a little mon- key wrench to throw into the works-namely a freak, enormous March snow storm. Some cars were on their way when they hit the snow and returned to Charlotte. Dr. Johnson's car ended up with five or six people Bottom Hard work often after hours by the staff at Country Day often Parental concern and involvement is a major factor in Country Days pursuit of excellence goes unrecognized, but it is vital to the functioning of the school. Below: Opening

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10 Opening proceeds have provided. Below: The Lower School library was an important part of the Learning Center plans. Bottom: Thanks to keen foresight the Lower School building looks as new now as it did when it was built. Top: Typewriters are just some of the necessities Big Saturday nv 43:5 is , I .,9i.:s,,z.tfr'1'i5 ' K WMM-iwmW......,, M. kitchen equipment, computer equipment, memory type- writers and other things too numerous to mention but thoroughly and sincerely appreciated by those who use them. During the summer of 1960 the Board of Managers took a major vote of confidence in Country Day by de- termining to build and move to the Carmel Fload proper- ty. A gift of 30 acres of land by Mr. and Mrs. James J. Harris together with the resources provided in a S480,000 capital fund drive, made the vision a reality. The move to the present campus was accomplished in September, 1960, with the basic buildings necessary: Bray Hall for Lower School, Pell Hall and the Cannon Science Building for Upper School, Barnhardt adminis- tration and library building, Sanger dining hall and Harris gymnasium. Mrs. Haywood, who had joined the school in the spring before the move to the new campus, was appointed Development Director and Enrollment Secre- tary. She has done a yeoman's job in those areas as well as many others tSchool Nurse, receptionist, Sustaining Fund Secretary, etc., etc.i for 20 years now. Along with the addition of an eleventh grade, the tradi- tions of Christmas Breakfast, Big Saturday and May Day moved to the new campus. Mr. Howe was a great devotee of the May Pole Dance and was often disap- pointed in the performance of said dance twhich can be very complicatedi by young children. As the great deci- sion-maker one year he decreed that the faculty would perform the May Pole Dance and so it was! There were several casualities the rehersals by the volunteers t?i,

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spending the night in one motel room in Spartanburg- Susan Saunders and her group recall it taking 14 hours to get to Atlanta. They stopped under a bridge on I-85 and listened to a whole ACC basketball tournament game before they could move on. She says that all they had to eat was a loaf of homemade bread Sally Dowd had sent to one of the occupants of the car. To meet the needs of a larger student body and im- prove educational methods, Country Day launched a Program of Progress divided into three phases. Phase l called for raising S1 ,350,000, and by November 1 , 1971 , a total of 51,380,000 had been pledged toward the objectives of Phase I. These objectives consisted of building a Learning-Teaching Center, a Student Center, and an addition to the gym, and renovation of the dining Top The cafeteria now doubles as a student hangout during free periods Below Country Day tries to keep its comraderle despite its large size by means of weekly assemblies Involving the whole Upper School Right New traditions like last years Medieval Day are always welcome Opening X C.. hall and administration building. Renovation of the Administration Building was the next thing to a circus or a nenlous breakdown. You could take your choice. The staff would continue to work while air hammers, roofers, carpet layers, paint- ers-you name it-worked around them. Indeed-a time to remember! Since we were building a Learning Center it could house the Library. Therefore, the area which had been used in the Barnhardt as a library was redesigned by Mr. Watson Burts to accommodate nu- merous staff and administrative offices and a space for a Board Room. The arrangement at the back of the building at present is the outcome of the growth of the business end of running the Mini-General Motors CCDS has become! William B. Pfeifer became head of Charlotte Country Day during the summer of 1972. He had not been a headmaster before but came to us from the Administra- tive division of the Williamsburg Foundation in Virginia. His senstivity to the problems of staff, and faculty per- sons, and people in the parent body was uncanny. He was the first person on the scene in a crisis, and there are people still associated with the school who will say,