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"Those who complain about Consolidation are certainly reckless with the facts.

B. The State

"The value of these institutions to the State need not be proved to this body of Trustees.

"Any analyst is bound to recognize the contributions this University has made to North Carolina's progressive social and political policies, its fiscal soundness, and its effect in shaping sane reactions of its citizens toward current problems.

"The Consolidated University's long lists of alumni who have become doctors, lawyers, educators, statesmen, agriculturists, industrialists and others prominent in the life of the state speak in eloquent terms of what this institution has meant to the State.

"I further pause only to call your attention to the State's growth in those 30 years in the fields of agriculture and industry.

	1930	1960
1. Agricultural Income	265 million	1 billion, plus
2. Industrial Payrolls	118 million	1 billion 600 million

"Of course many factors other than the contributions of our University have gone into these figures, and I hasten to disclaim any suggestion that the University is solely responsible. Certainly, however, we have not been lacking in our part.

"IV. Now we have outgrown the 1931 set-up. In 1930 our population was 3,170,000. Today it is over 4-1/2 million. The Higher Educational needs of 1-1/2 million more citizens demand action, and action without delay.

'V. The answer, we think, is the plan so ably outlined to you by your very competent Committee Chairman, Mr. Pearsall. This plan is the composite handiwork of committees and commissions of dedicated men and women, of educators, administrators, and individual citizens, including Irving Carlyle, an intelligent public servant, who Governor Sanford, with clear foresight, appointed as Chairman of the Commission to study Higher Education in North Carolina. I also include President William Friday, whose firm and intelligent guidance has been ever present in the construction of all of these plans. Both his head and his heart are in this Report. You named him as President of the University with the belief that you were selecting a leader mature enough to formulate a sound educational program and young enough to supervise the plan as it unfolded. His labors in this matter have justified your every hope.

"This comprehensive plan embraces all state-supported institutions of higher learning in North Carolina, including two-year community colleges, the four-year state-supported colleges, and the University.

"The University's role is only a part, but a very important part, of the total plan. It contemplates one, but only one, State university comprised of three separate but consolidated universities.

"The five recommendations pertaining to the University's part in this plan have been thoroughly explained, and there is no need to trespass upon your time for further explanation."

(Here Mr. Bryant referred to the recommendations in the Report for:

1. Definition
2. Co-education on all campuses
3. Liberal arts at Raleigh
4. Plan for future expansion
5. Name).