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a committee of trustees to study the questions which he had presented along with other questions pertaining to the University's future.

"On July 23, Governor Sanford appointed a committee of eleven Board members. Perhaps I should remind you of their names: Victor S. Bryant, of Durham; Mrs. JohnG. Burgwyn, of Jackson; Lenox G. Cooper, Wilmington; Percy B. Ferebee, Andrews; George Watts Hill, Durham; William C. Medford, Asheville; Judge H. L. Riddle, Jr. Morganton; Roy Rowe, Burgaw; Walter L. Smith, Charlotte; John W. Umstead, Jr. , of Chapel Hill. I was asked to be chairman.

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"The Committee held its first meeting on August 10 in Chapel Hill. President Friday, his staff officers, and all three Chancellors were present. Also present, at the invitation of the committee, was Mr. Hill Yarborough, Chairman of the Visiting Committee of this Board. At that time the committee conducted a thoroughgoing discussion and appraisal of the task and the opportunity before it. President Friday submitted a considered statement not only of the conditions and events leading to the appointment of the committee but also the broad significance of the work of the committee. He set forth certain fundamental policies to be followed in adapting curricular offerings and admissions practices to changing needs and certain guidelines to be followed in considering the establishment of a campus of the University in any new location. He indicated that the Chancellors would, as in all matters affecting our institutions, be closely informed and consulted. He stated also that an ad hoc Facuity Advisory Committee to the President composed of faculty members from all three institutions would be available for advice and counsel.

"In the course of the discussion, there seemed to develop in the minds of the committee members a sense that a task of far-reaching importance to the University was at hand. To contemplate the establishment of additional campuses of the University was arresting enough in its implications; but there was also the assignment to study ' other related questions pertaining to the University's future, ' and all of this to be considered in the context of the challenging proposals then being shaped in the Carlyle Commission which included, among many others, the proposal to establish a system of comprehensive community colleges in North Carolina offering academic, vocational, and adult education