Sandhills Community College - Sandhills Yearbook (Southern Pines, NC)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Sports 78 Adult Education 96 Learning Laboratory 100 3

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TO THE STUDENTS What a joy to address the Class of 1968 through the first annual published by the students of Sandhills Community College! Great joy of achievement abounds. Much has been accomplished since your beginning at Sandhills. You helped occupy the new campus. The excitement of being the first class to enter the new facilities quickly gave way to the more lasting pursuit of new friends, deeper thoughts, broader horizons, and responsible freedom . Involvement with students, faculty, books, and even exams brought an early realization that you were, in fact, in college. We hope you have experienced the thrill of discovery that the life of learning can be. Now you are about to leave Sandhills. You have completed your course of study. Your next steps will be in many different directions - possibly to another institution, to employment, or to the armed services. We hope that your stay here has helped prepare you for that step. But in a real sense you cannot leave Sandhills. It has become a part of you. Your day to day activities shaped your purpose and gave meaning to your en¬ deavors. To the extent the College helped you determine the kind of person in the kind of world you want to be to that extent Sandhills scored well on its examination. You carry wtih you our best wishes for success but, more importantly, our true desire for meaning and purpose in your life. Dr. Raymond A. Stone 2

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History Of Zke College Sandhills Community College was the first comprehensive community college authorized and established as the result of legislation passed by the 1963 General Assembly of North Carolina. Shortly after passage of this legisla¬ tion, H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen led a group of prominent Moore County citizens in petitioning the State Board of Education to establish a community college in Moore County. Upon approval of the petition, the citizens of Moore County voted in favor of a one-million-dollar bond issue for capital construction and a tax levy for the maintainance of college facilities. Twelve prominent men were appointed to serve as the Board of Trustees. In addition to Mr. Blue, who was appointed Chairman, were: Dr. W. E. Alexander and Dr. A. A. Vanore of Robbins, N. L. Hodgkins, Sr. and Robert S. Ewing of Southern Pines, J. E. Causey of Lakeview, J. C. Robbins of Aberdeen, Thomas B. Hunter of Rockingham, John F. Taylor of Pinehurst, L. L. Marion, Jr. of Cart¬ hage, Dr. Charles Highsmith of Troy, and Paul Dickson of Raeford. For the first time the Board met on December 4, 1963, a date observed each year as Founders ' Day. On December 27, 1963, Dr. Raymond A. Stone was appointed the first president of the new college and assumed his duties in January, 1964. With remarkable speed Dr. Stone planned the educational pro¬ grams, selected faculty and staff person¬ nel, and organized the courses of the curriculum. With the architects, Hayes- Howell and Associates of Southern Pines, Dr. Stone worked on the design of the buildings to be constructed on the 180 acres of scenic woodland donated by Mrs. Mary Luman Meyer of Pinehurst and Lake Forest, Illinois. Construction of the buildings began in November, 1964, with an appropriate ground-breaking ceremony with then Governor Terry Sanford as the speaker. The college opened to students in the fall of 1965 with classes held in nine different temporary locations in the town of South¬ ern Pines. A year later (September, 1966), Sandhills Community College moved into its permanent home. The brief but dynamic history was marked by two colorful and meaningful ceremonies in December, 1966. Dr. Raymond A. Stone was formally inaugu¬ rated as the first president of the College, and the buildings were formally dedi¬ cated. A feature of the two days of festi¬ vities was the naming of the science- technology building in honor of Mrs. Meyer, college benefactress. Today Sandhills Community College is the realization of the vision of dedi¬ cated persons who continue to work to¬ ward a goal of providing fine education, culture, and a better way of life for the young and the young at heart. Clockwise around the table, starting at the far left: Dr. Francis L. Owens; J. E. Causey; L. L. Marion, Jr.; Paul Dickson; Dr. Raymond A . Stone, president; Dr. W. E. Alexander, vice chairman; H. Clifton Blue, chairman; J. C. Robbins, secretary; Dr. A. A. Vanore; N. L. Hodgkins, Sr. , treasurer; Ralph Monger, Jr.; Robert S . Ewing; and Thoman B. Hunter.