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

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T ROBERT B. HOUSE Dean of Adminislmtion

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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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lDlEAN'S MESSAGE To the Members of the Graduating Class: This message, which will reach you when Chapel Hill is beauteous with spring blossoms, is written in October, when all about us is the glory of autumn. What a beau- tiful setting for beautiful companionship! The University has just opened with a record enrollment and with a de'- lightful spirit of progressive understanding and mutual enjoyment. The new dormitory for women, the magnifi- cent gymnasium, work beginning on the new medical school, are features of the campus which you will re- member as marking your graduating year. Fine athletic relations, stimulated by a wholesome program of physical education, the enriching and deepening of the General Col- lege's program, and the special programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, the strengthening of departments, and the expanding influence of the Graduate School and the professional schools, are landmarks in the intellectual life of the University which you will remember well. And, above all, student self-development, self-government, and self-expression in terms of spiritual and rational control are in a healthy state in keeping with the traditions of the University and by reason of your vital participation in them. I hope that, in addition to your memories of your personal experience here, you will keep before you the idea of an institution constantly striving to he an honest place of learning, a stimulating place of thought, and an inspiring place of complete personal and spiritual develop- ment. I feel quite sure that you have profited by your stay in the University in terms of intellectual, professional, and practical growth, and I am sure that the University has profited by your residence here, but I think, above all things, the University is something to be enjoyed with cleanness, fineness, and zest while we are in that privileged class of her undergraduates, and to be remembered with affection, loyalty, and high spiritual commitment after graduation. The fellowship of Carolina is fellowship in a beautiful place, in beautiful human associations, and in an ideal which transcends its past of glorious history and its present of joyous achievement. I hope that you have found what all of us find here-a reasonable inspiration and satisfac- tion each day-but I hope you leave not completely satis- fied but hungry for a more complete realization of the spirit that is in the University, and I hope you have com- mitted yourself with the University to the unending search for the realization of its highest ideal. Affectionately yours, Dean of Administration.