Gaston College - Reveleer Yearbook (Dallas, NC)

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A test tube and a microscope in the chemistry lab, Earphones and consoles in the language center, Wrenches and greasepots and lots of noise in the auto lab A transit with a plumb bob, sentinel-like, sighting an invisible line across the campus Drawing tables like tract houses with pitched roofs all in a row Smears of paint and a bucket of “mud creating a still-life in real life Computer terminals that hum and clatter, that read a card and a name, and say, “error, error, error” Eighty-eight black and white keys poised on a sounding board waiting for the human touch Book stacks higher than your head and round tables inviting readers to sample books on a hundred subjects Lecterns ceremoniously facing formations of desks, lightly dusted with chalk Tennis courts listening to the forever sound of “thunk-plok, thunk-plok” Images of education-in-progress at Gaston — four separate divisions interacting to fill the needs of a diverse student body 10

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U ) The tree doubted the truth at first, and the owl told him that he had to believe in order to grow and to keep from being cut down. A fly by night preview of “Mr. Time and His Son” Was posted on your empty Halls and doorways. “He Has Struck Again,” this time Was the headline. “When Will It Ever End? was in Bold print underneath. “Oh, sometime Sunday morning,” was The president’s prediction. “But Sunday mornin’ ya’II be snorin' And I’ll be carrying on an eternal tradition.” And so the story ends. I do not know what will become of the tree when I am gone, but so far Time has not taken its place. I am almost certain he never will, but if he does I hope it does not happen until I have been sat safely in the grass. Jo Avery

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Continuing Education is an umbrella that covers a plethora of upward and outward programs— for one who seeks to learn to read, for one who has a yen to knit or to pass the real estate broker’s exam, for an adult who needs a high school diploma, and increasingly for those men and women who would further their employability through Human Resource Development programs. Vocational Education turns out craftsmen and skilled workers in a variety of fields to manufacture and keep things running in our mechanized and transistorized world. Technical Education prepares engineering technicians to enter industry armed with the “know-how to do a job and the know-why to design new methods of doing it. Numbers of technical graduates transfer to senior colleges and universities for the Bachelor’s degree. Academic Education opens the entire liberal arts spectrum to its students, preparing them for transfer to the senior institution of their choice. Degrees of Associate in Arts, Associate in Fine Arts, and Associate in Science provide an entrance into further study in dozens of professional fields of endeavor.