The Wilmington morning star., 1941-02-07
GRAHAM APPEALS
FOR U.N. c. FUNDS
Speaks at Meeting of General
Assembly of the Alumni
Association

CHAPEL HILL, Feb. g. wv
The three institutions of the con-
soljdated university of North Caio'
lima "are in constant danger OF los-
ing their best men," as a result u
tho threat of inadequate approprld-
+;ons President Frank P. GrahaHl
told the general assembly OF the
h,,mni association in an address
here tonight.
speaking at the annual business
session of local association n class
officers. President Graham maze al
and earnest plea Tor tne
,1dget he has recommended Tor all
three institutions, including the
Agricultural Extension division anu
the Central Agricultural E2perl-
ment station.
For the university at Chapel HILL
bv way OF example, he showed he
was requesting s898,565 for 4,9oS
students as compared with SS94'5'9
which the state actually gave the
university at Chapel Hill for 3'oo'
students g. dozen years ago..
"Or to put it another way" ne
said, "for 1874 more students l am
asking for only sZ,186 more than
was received from the state a dozen
years ago..
This means, it was pointed out,
that although the university o
has 81 IL percent more students
than IL years ago, it is requesting
from the state in appropriations
onlv - of one percent more now
than then.
President Graham's plea, which
tho alumni officers r expected to
take back home and to he'll lesls-
lature representatives, was warmly
applauded.
CAPTAIN Robert S. Haggart, in
command OF the university's newly
established naval reserve unit. told
of the progress made by the unit
since it's establishment with the in
duction, of 50 freshmen last fall.
One of eight such units establish
ed SO far in colleges, Captain Hag-
CART said the Navy department re-
CARDS these as permanent corps.
The plan is to take in 100 new men
each year until the corps has an
enrolment Of 400 at the end OF
four years he explained that uni
forms have just been issued and
that regular dress drills are being
held. Summer cruises will be
taken at the end of the sophomore
year, he said.
Captain Haggart praised highly
the attitude of the students enroll
ed in the corps here SO far.
Hugh Walpole, a cousin of the
famed novelist, who is giving in,
struction3 in the basic English
course now being given at the uni
versity for the benefit of the Soutl
American Winter Summer School,
explained the methods used in EN-
ploying only $50 words in teaching
the South Americans the English
language. Through this method any
foreigner may command a good
grasp of English quickly, he said.
W. A. Dees of Goldsboro, and
Stable Linn of Salisbury, were nom
mated for the presidency of the
General Alumni association of the
University at Chapel Hill, along with
an entire slate of new officers who
will be voted on by mail ballots DON
Fred Sutton, of Kinston, the re.
%s~s,o. -rcr1o1t ,,ro- rnah11 70 hf
here on account of a wedding in his
family, and Vice-President Archie
Dees presided.
Kay Kyser and DR.. I. j. Wilson,
III, of New York, were nominated
for the first vice-presidency, and
Walter B. Love of Monroe, and D.
B. league Of Sanford, for the second
vice-presidency.
Nominated for a three year term
on the university athletic council
were Bowman Gray of Winston
Salem, the incumbent, and Glen 8.
Holding Of Raleigh.
The directors at large for the
Alumni association are to be elected
and the nominees were Hoyt B.
Boone of Greensboro, Jack LeGrand,
of Wilmington, Horace E. Stacy of
Lumberton, and Lawrence Watt of
Charlotte.
The nominating committee was
composed Of Justice j. Wallace Win
borne, Of Raleigh, Representative
w. E. Homer Of Sanford, and Rep
resentative Thos. J. Pearsall of
Rocky Mount.