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could have been realized. With the impulse of Gardner, the guidance of Graham and then Gray, and the powerful collaboration of Woollen, Carmichael, Brooks, Foust, House, Jackson, and Harrelson (not to mention present company and many others who are not here today) we have been brought to a favored place in the world of education and in the strength of our institutional resources and arrangements to push forward in another advance for our University and our State.

"The Act of Consolidation coupled three institutions into one. It also established a plan for avoiding costly duplication. Instead of attempting to have two engineering schools we would concentrate our resources upon one. Instead of two business schools, there would be one. According to the plan of allocated functions, specialized programs, especially graduate and professional programs, would be developed on only one of the three campuses. At the same time there would be constructive cooperation and interchange among faculties and institutions. A member of our Graduate Council has called this "the doctrine of complimentary strengths". Thus, strength in design at Raleigh might complement strength in city and regional planning at Chapel Hill. Strength in food science at Raleigh might complement strength in home economics at Greensboro.

"The thirty-one years since consolidation have been years of advancement for the three-fold university. The growth and progress of the three, and the one, is too evident for me to belabor it here, and besides it is not the past but the future to which we direct our attention today.

"We face a new need and a new opportunity in a world that is largely transformed even in the short generation since 1931. We are not educating enough of our people. Despite our proud educational achievements, North Carolina ranks distressfully low among the states in the proportion of its adult citizens who attended college and the proportion of college age youth who go to college. In the face of this harsh fact we see a growing population, a burgeoning economy, and a future which is unlimited if we will but raise the educational level of our people. The need today is not to avoid duplication, but to duplicate, to multiply our educational offerings at the level of general undergraduate training while observing progressive enlargement of professional and graduate education within the University structure. We must call into play the structure and machinery established in thirty-one years of experience for a broadening of university programs and services appropriate to demonstrated needs of the present and soundly estimated needs of the future.

"The program which has been put forward today is a logical stage in the progressive implementation of ideas implicit in consolidation. It draws the gathered resources of the three-fold University into the ongoing effort to advance all education in North Carolina. It casts the line for future growth of the University within the concept of one State University. It provides for necessary expansion while at the same time preserving institutional integrity. By defining the University purpose, it protects against wasteful proliferation. By broadening admissions policies and undergraduate programs, it opens doors to many worthy and eligible students. By establishing a framework for future expansion, it assures a continuing attention to new area needs for University education. By adopting a name which denotes the oneness of the University, it assumes a solid unity of the entire University family working for a better state.

"I express my profound appreciation to William Aycock, John Caldwell, Otis Singletary, Donald Anderson, Fred Weaver, the faculty committee, and many others for their splendid spirit of cooperation and helpfulness in working with the Trustees' Committee in shaping this program. We are unanimous in our judgment that the best interests of the University and the State will be served when this program is fully implemented.

"So it is with the occasion that fortune presents to us today. The people of the State await your answer this morning. As I see it, we either go forward on the bouyant impulse of a lofty program of larger service, or we say nay and rue the cost of forfeited opportunity. "