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Raleigh, North Carolina
Governor's Office
March 13, 1964

The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of North Carolina met in regular session in the office of the Governor, State Capitol Building, Raleigh, North Carolina, at 10:30 o'clock, a. m. on Friday, March 13, 1964, with the following members present: Messrs. Wicker, Barber, Umstead, Hill, Bryant, Mintz, Pearsall, Maynard, Taylor, Mrs. Lathrop and Mrs. Burgwyn, Arch T. Allen, Secretary.

Absent: Mr. G. N. Noble.

Also present were: President Friday, Vice Presidents Anderson, Weaver and King, Business Officer and Treasurer Shepard, Chancellor Aycock, Singletary and Caldwell.

In the absence of Governor Sanford, Mr. Taylor was elected to pres

State College Alumni proposals

Chairman Taylor recognized President Friday who introduced Mr. Edmund B. Aycock, President, Mr. Charles H. Reynolds, Chairman of the Board, and Mr. Roscoe West, Vice President, of the North Carolina State Alumni Association to be heard in connection with two proposals heretofore filed with President Friday.

Mr. Aycock then read a written statement on behalf of the North Carolina State Alumni Association.

(The written statement, together with the two proposals are on file with the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary, and copies of the same were attached to mimeographed copies of Committee minutes and mailed to all members of the Board).

Thereafter a number of questions were propounded by various members of the Executive Committee. As a result of an inquiry relating to the position of the faculty of North Carolina State, Chancellor Caldwell read the following statement from the Faculty Senate of North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina to the Visiting Committee of the Board of Trustees on November 1, 1963:

RENAMING THIS INSTITUTION

"Last spring, after prolonged negotiations and acrimonious debate, the General Assembly of North Carolina renamed this institution North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh.

"Selected with the best of intentions as a compromise, this name is nevertheless unsatisfactory and embarrassing to the faculty of this institution. It is neither dignified nor descriptive, and raises the question as to what the institution really is.