University of North Carolina Charlotte - Rogues n Rascals or SiSi Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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PRES lDJlEN'll S MESSAGE To the Class of 1938: As the University year draws to a close, we are reluc- tant to realize that your undergraduate days also come to an end. In another sense your college life never ends. You will always be a part of the life of this place and this University, and they will always be a Part of your life. College mates, fraternity, dormitory, professors, library, laboratories, Davie poplar, Franklin street, the bell tower, Battle woods, Kenan stadium, the arboretum, classes, games, elections, eighteenth century buildings, and rock walls, modern institutes and forums, struggles in student govern- ment, freedom and democracy, life callings, impulses for public service and human betterment, spiritual aspirations -all these and more have been a part of your life and development forever associated with the traditions and ways of Chapel I-lill. With all our frustrations and failures, you leave behind many real contributions to the immortal stream of Uni- versity life and carry into the world their enduring satis- factions. In your college quadrennium, many improve- ments have been made in the life of the college and the University by your own initiative or with your coopera- tion and support. In the past four years were created, established, or made effective the following: A restudy and strengthening of the honor system and the organizing of class honor councils to reinforce the cen- tral student honor council, the General College, with a reorganized curriculum, a dean and an especially respon- sible group of faculty advisers for freshmen and sopho- mores, improved dormitory conditions and management, the organization of the dormitory council and the inau- guration of senior or graduate student advisers in the fresh- men dormitories, improved dormitory provisions for women by reconditioning Archer House as a graduate women's dormitory and the building of the new graduate women's dormitory, the improvement of student health and hygiene by the establishment of a department of edu- cation and athletics with a large staff in charge of a cur- riculum in the college and graduate school, courses in hygiene for all freshmen, an expanded intramural athletic program for the whole student body, some two scores of new tennis courts, a dozen intramural fields, the new Fetzer Field for track and other sports and the new gym- nasium and swimming pool for both men and women students, a central records office for cumulative personnel records, general placement service, testing service, and reading clinic, student-faculty day, a student advisory corn- mittee to the assistant controller, the reduction in the price of textbooks and laundry rates, the student co- operative movement, the organization of the Division of Teacher Training, the Division of Social Work and the Division of Public Health, the establishment of a new art department, a new department of dramatic art, and the especial strengthening of the departments of physics, chem- istry, philosophy, German and education, the assumption of responsibility for the School of Library Science by the University, the acquisition of the Carolina Inn for use as an inn, faculty social center, and alumni headquarters, the reconditioning of Swain Hall and the installation of a modern cafeteria, the renovation of the Alumni Build- ing, marked increase in the facilities and equipment of Venable Hall, and provision for the transformation of Phillips Hall into a modern physics building, recondition- ing of and additions to the central power line and heating system to meet the needs of an expanding University, the saving of the Medical School, the addition of a third floor to the medical building, enlargement of the teaching staff and provision for the addition of a clinical annex to the inlirmary for the purposes of the Medical School, and plans completed for the building of a new modern medical building, the general budgetary recovery of the Uni- versity and restoration of the salaries from the 6801, basis to 93.512, and the settlement of the major issues of con- solidation Within the University framework to serve the needs of all the people of North Carolina. During your college generation, the recovery, the gen- eral improvement and special advancements of the Uni- versity on all fronts has been made possible through the initiative and cooperation of the students, the faculty, the administrative staff, the alumni, the budget commission, the legislature, the governor and the people of North Carolina, and the people of the United States. With appreciation of your interest, your cooperative participation, and your devoted loyalty, Alma Mater sends you forth with an affection and faith that will go with you always. ,L UL

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FRANK PORTER GRAHAM Prexidenf of the University

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T ROBERT B. HOUSE Dean of Adminislmtion