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September 1941 Campus Comments by Iredell County Public Library

“Campus Comments” was the campus newspaper published monthly at Mitchell College, in Statesville, North Carolina. An article in The Statesville Daily on Aug. 20, 1941, p. 3, gave a description of the local junior college newspaper. “The Comments used to be amimeographed, and last year it was a small, four-page paper that looked more like a grammar grade gazette than anything else.”

The Daily went on to say that, “They’re putting out a “Welcome to Mitchell” edition September 10th that will be big and good in comparison with other junior college newspapers and with pass editions of Campus Comments.” The September and October 1941 issues of Campus Comments are part of the Local History collection at the Iredell County Public Library and have been digitized made available for viewing on our Flickr site.

The September 1941 issue describes itself as the, “Liveliest Junior College Newspaper In North Carolina” and states, “We believe that this issue is unique in the fact that it is the first of its kind to be published in North Carolina.”

This ambitious campus newspaper publication is made possible by the talents of the paper’s student staff. The editor of the paper in 1941 is Louis Estell Laffoon (1923-2013) from Elkin, N.C. where her father Harvey Franklin Laffoon (1897-1978) is editor of the Elkin Tribune, and president of the Midwestern Press Association.

Other notable members of the papers staff include Statesville native Bill Powell (who graduated from Mitchell, served in WWII, and then returned to N.C. where he became known as William Stevens Powell (1919-2015), author and Professor of History at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C.’s most distinguished historian. By May 1941, Powell’s younger sister, Frances Elizabeth Powell Gainor (1922-1996) was the papers editor.

Handling features and ads for the paper was Statesville native, Max Bailey Tharpe (1920-2010), who also after returning from WWII, would become one of N.C.’s most prominent newspaper and commercial photographers. The Max Tharpe Photograph Collection is a part of the Local History collection at the Iredell County Public Library and digitized photographs of his work can be found here on the library’s Flickr page under the “Max Tharpe Photograph Collection.”

Mitchell Community College was started by the Concord Presbytery in 1852 and opened at Concord Presbyterian Female College in the fall of 1856. Following the Civil War, the Presbytery suffered economically and in 1872 they sold the college to a local Statesville businessman Robert Falls Simonton (1827-1876). Simonton changed the name of the college to Simonton Female College.

In 1904 the Concord Presbytery once again took control of Mitchell College. In 1917 the college was renamed Mitchell College in honor of Eliza Mitchell Grant and Margaret Eliot Mitchell who were longtime teachers and administrators at the college. The two sisters began at the college in 1875 and were the daughters of Professor Elisha Mitchell for whom Mount Mitchell is named.

In 1924 the college changed from a four-year to a two-year college. In 1932 the college opened admittance to men and in 1959 the Mitchell College Foundation took control of the college over from the Presbytery and operated it as an independent junior college. In 1973, Mitchell College became a part of the North Carolina Community College system and the name was changed to Mitchell Community College.

Joel Reese, Local History Librarian

Iredell County Public Library

July 26, 2021

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