The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-06-15
State Colleges
Alumni to Push
onsolidation
To Lend Aid Toward Max
ing Merger Results Ef-
fective as Possible
By J. c. BASKERVlLL
The Times-Ncws Bureau
Cir Vnlfnr HOtpl


RALEIGH, June 15.-The al
umni of State College are going
to cooperate to the fullest extent
with the board of trustees OF the
University of North Carolina to
make the consolidation of the
University as effective as posi-
BILE, it was decided in their an
nual commencement meeting here
this week. There were some few
who wanted to continue to fight
the consolidation on the basis
that the Chapel Hill unit was still
a hobgoblin, trying to gobble up
State College and the Engineer
ing School and reduce State to
nothing more than a junior col
lege for the study of gardening.
But a majority of the alumni re-
fused to see the situation in that
light and decided that the best in
terests of State College could be
served by cooperating with the
trustees in the consolidation
movement instead Of by bucking
them.
Some of the alumni and facu!-
tv at State became alarmed last
week when it was learned that n
recommendation had already been
made to the executive committee
of the board of trustees that most
of the engineering work now be-
ing taught in the Chapel Hill unit
Of the University be retained
there, and that the engineering
work at both the State College
and Chapel Hill units be co-ordi-
mated into a single School of En-
cheering under the same head.
It was also reported that DR.. Her
man G. Baity, present head of
the Engineering School at Chapel
Hill, would probably be recon-
mended to become the dean of
the new consolidated School OF
Engineering, to embrace both in.
situations. These reports served
to arouse some of the more ex-
IRENE State College alumni who
have always been opposed to the
consolidation plan, and the facul-
ty members who are likely to lose
their Jobs as a result of 1t.
But the rank and file of the
alumni who attended the annual
meeting here Monday were not at
all aroused and disturbed at these
reports, it has been learned, while
many of them were frankly
pleased at the turn matters had
taken and frankly agreed that 1T
might be a good thing to weed
out the dead timber from the en-
gineering faculty and to have a
single new School of Engineering
under a new head and with new
blood and brains in it. Some OF
them maintained that if the State
College School of Engineering had
been thoroughly renovated and
undermined ten years ago, the
present question as to whether IL
should be continued at State Col
lege or removed to Chapel Hill
would never have come up. Many
of the alumni also agreed that the
greater part of the opposition to
the consolidation movement has
come from the beginning either
from members of the faculty IN
the School of Engineering or from
alumni and others closely associ-
ated WIKI them.
A majority of the alumni
seemed to feel that the board Of
trustees had no desire to wreck
Or injure any of the three insti-
tutions now making up the con-
solidated University, and that it
was only seeking to make what
adjustments it could to eliminate
as much duplication as possible
and bring about more economy IN
the operation of all of them. In
order to assure the board of trus-
tees of their desire to cooperate
and assist it as much as possible
in carrying out the consolidation
plan, the alumni association
named committee to this end.
The committee is composed of
Colonel J. W. Harrelson, former
Governor o. Max Gardner, w. D..
Faucette, John W. Sexton, John