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

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I never could have gotten through it without Bill Pfeifer. He worked personally with parents who wanted to do something special and different for the school. The results were-the furnishing of the Board Room andthe establishment of our typing program through the dona- tion of the equipment now found in our typing room. He also realized the need for the faculty to get together now and then to let their hair down and relax. He and his charming wife, Sandy, would give periodic parties- enjoyed by all. However, one Christmas party brought on a catastrophe for one of the guests. It took almost a month to solve the mystery of the Wrong Mink Stole. :Someone had picked up the wrong wrap as she left the party and the owner was just devasted! Notices in the daily bulletin brought no results-until-the solution fi- nally came to light. One of the guests was wearing a :stole borrowed from her sister. When she returned it, her sister said- This isn't my stole! The exchange was finally made, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief 'that there real? wasn't a thief among us! Under Mr. P eifer we established a real office of De- velopment to handle fund raising and public relations for the school. During this time Phase ll of the Program of Progress was undertaken and the monies used to en- large the Science facilities and to build our Fine Arts Building. In the past, ingenuity was the prime requisite for belonging to the Drama Workshop. Plays were pre- sented either in Floom Tor in the Learning Center where building sets-moving them-and storing them during the day while the areas were used for other purposes, posed a real challenge. lt was, therefore, a real shock when the first play presented in the new magnificent facility was presented on a stage with no set except a bare scaffolding and a bunch of wadded up newspa- pers! Guess they couldn't handle prosperity! God is great, God is good, and we thank Him for Mark Hagerman! During the school year before Mr. Pfeifer resigned, it became necessary to hire both an Assistant Headmaster and a Head of Lower School. Mr. J. R. Williams, a young history instructor at Taft School, was hired as Assistant Head, and this time the Board decid- ed he would be groomed and trained to take over the leadership of the school when next we needed a head- master. Mr. Hagerman was former headmaster at For- syth Country Day in Winston Salem and would become Head of our Lower School which was floundering .K xx, :art Y L X N'-1 f f Top The Learning Center houses the libraries audio visual equipment teachers offices com puter room archives and student study carrels Above School spirit is an integral part of life at Country Day Left The Fine Arts Building is the most recent addition to the Cannon Campus lt houses music art and dance rooms as well as the theatre Opening

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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,

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around with little leadership as Mr. Pfeifer had tried to be all things to all people and finally realized they needed someone to call their own. During summer vacation Mr. Pfeifer resigned-Mr. Williams was appointed Acting Headmaster and Mr. Ha- german joined us as Head of Lower School. While Mr. Williams was on a trip to the middle west he was taken seriously ill, and it was obvious that he would not be able to assume the responsibilities that go with the job of Headmaster. So . . . thank God for Mark Hagerman! We were lucky enough to already have on our staff a man who had been a headmaster! The Board asked him to become Interim Head-and the Search Committee was off again to find us a new headmaster. Mr. Hagerman took a very serious situation and guid- ed the school through one of its smoothest years. Al- ways an open door-willing to make a decision on the spot-tremendous respect for the competence of his colleagues-it seemed that everyone rose in their own Dear Parents We are delighted to announce that on Mond y September 24 esteem and everyone did a little something extra to get the school through this time of crisis. Meanwhile, the Search Committee was at work and this time they really did it!! On a rain Sunday night in January 1975, Mr. Hagerman and riend were out at the school making copies of a letter from the Chairman of the Board inform- ing parents, staff and faculty that Mr. Horton Reed had been unanimously chosen as the next headmaster of Charlotte Country Day. Mr. Reed's credentials were awesome-he had started at square one and built, staffed, and run an Episcopal Day School in Jackson- ville, Fla. A completely new era was to begin at Charlotte Coun- try Day School. Mr. Reed considers himself to be a Corporate Head and leaves the running of the nitty- gritty to the very capable educators on his administra- tive staff. With such a dynamic person at the helm no- one was too astonished to read the following during his first year at CCDS. September 25 1979 the Boards of Trustees of Carmel Acade y and Charlotte Cou try Day School voted Cunanl o slyj to merge 0 r two lnstitutlons Whlle legally the merger is no taklng place both schools ill main ta1n thelr academlc separation untll June Thus there ill be ample opportunlty to complete properly all the necessary arrangements for the future co blned operat1on Our prlmary lnterest of co rse 1S the OPPOYCUHICIES for education and all round growth offered to o r st dents ln thxs regard after rev1ew1ng the experiences of other prom1nent day schools and after exploring our concept of merger ith the educational leaders of o r own 1nstitut1ons we are holly confident that o r st dents ill benefit greatly from this action ln fact both Horton Reed and Alice Litwinchuk have emphatically endorsed our dec1s1on and have pledged thelr holehearted comm1tment and support in its xmplementatlon Mr Re d w1ll continue to serve as Headmaster of Charlotte Country Day School Under his d1rection M1ss L1tw1nchuk w1ll contxn e as Princlpal of the Carmel Ca pus and Mark Hagerman will be appolnted Princ1pal of the CCDS campus The Country Day Board Joined Tr s ro t l Board g e n the S ho In the eeks and months ahead y u will recelve anno ncements about all aspects of the School s future operation Meanwhlle let s share w1th you our e citement abo t some of the plans made poss1ble by poollng the resources of the t o 1nstitut1ons On the Carmel Campus a ne Mlddle School w1th its own identlty faculty a d progra roprl te t th t ge gro CAmong ne pp rtunit1es 111 be formal forexgn lang age study and intram ral sports D On the CCDS Campus an expanded Lower School progra Cincluding ore f3C111tiES and SPEC1811 ed 1nSCYUCCi n a allable according to lndivid al need a ell as additlonal ne act1v1ties outslde the classrooml Also on the CCDS Campus a more comprehensive program for the Upper School CFor xa ple it ill no be pos ible academically to offer more breadth in instrumental music and more depth in advanced placement study athletically we shall have greater strength in both the intra and interscholastic progra s B Transportatxon will be available between campuses at the beginning and end of the school day and at ther times f r special activities I for 1 g th1s ne ed catxonal community lf is natural perhaps inevitable that a myr1ad of temporary concerns w1ll arise about former customs or loy1lties and about new questlons or rumors We hope that you will share our enth siastic con viction that all such matters can and will be resolved 5 that e all ay pro ide a truly superior education for our children Slncerely ff lisp Ms xiii! 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