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In this fifth of a series of interviews conducted by Dr. Ed Perzel (former Chair of the Department of History and Associate Dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte), Bonnie Cone discusses the transition from Charlotte Center-UNC to Charlotte College in 1949. She describes the first National Meeting of the American Association of Junior Colleges in California in February 1949 and the impact this had on her career. Ms. Cone also reflects on the difficulties of keeping the Charlotte Center open after the first two years of its existence, tension between the college and state bureaucracy, faculty and staff remuneration, the support of the local press, relations with the engineering department at North Carolina State University, recruitment of students from local high schools, advantages of becoming an independent college in 1949, service to veterans, the establishment of Carver College at Second Ward High School as a parallel college for African American students, and the financial challenges that Charlotte College faced.

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Title
Bonnie E. Cone oral history interview 10, 1988 February 4
Creator
Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003, interviewee
Contributor
Perzel, Edward Spaulding, interviewer
Date (Text)
1988-02-04
Place of Creation
Charlotte, North Carolina
Publisher
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Extent
1 audio file (1:13:55) : digital, MP3 + 1 transcript (45 pages : PDF)
Biographical/Historical Note
Bonnie Ethel Cone was an 80-year-old woman at the time of interview, which took place in J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC Charlotte in Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born in Lodge, South Carolina in 1907 and was educated at Coker College and Duke University. She was employed as a teacher, as Director of the Charlotte Center of the University of North Carolina, as President of Charlotte College, and as Acting Chancellor and later Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Other Identifiers
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13093/uncc:2905
System Control No.
UA-CO0020
Subject (Person)
Cone, Bonnie E., 1907-2003
Perzel, Edward Spaulding
Garinger, Elmer Henry, 1891-
Hechenbleikner, Herbert, 1909-2004
Subject (Corporate)
Charlotte College
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina (System)
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Carver College (Charlotte, N.C.)
Subject (Topic)
Education, Higher
Education, Higher--Administration
Community colleges
Wages--College employees
Women college presidents
Women community college presidents
College-student veterans
Geographic Coverage
North Carolina--Charlotte
Subject (Occupation)
College administrators
College presidents
Subject (Date)
1940-1990
Type
Audio
Format
spoken word
Interviews
Oral histories
Language
English
Usage Statement
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Copyright Holder
This material is protected by copyright. Copyright is held by the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Record Appears in
University Archives Collection > UNC Charlotte Oral History Interviews
Oral History Collections > Interviews with Bonnie Cone
Internet Mime Type
audio/mpeg
Location of Original
J. Murrey Atkins Library Special Collections & University Archives, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Reproduction Note
MP3 access copy created on ingest from WAV preservation master. Interview originally recorded on two analog audio cassette tapes and digitized using a Digidesign 003 rack.
2020-03-12

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