Glimpses of Greensboro [April 1960]

              Glimpses of
Volume 8
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF GREENSBORO. N. C. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
APRIL, 1960
Number 2
Chamber's 83rd Annual Meeting Attracts 350
Centra! Business
District Course
Has 13 From City
The first session in a series of
five Central Business District
Seminars, sponsored by the Institute of Government at Chapel
Hiy and the Ford Foundation
was held last Wednesday, April
13 at the King Cotton Hotel,
Greensboro.
Designed for civic and business leaders to encourage closer
working relationships between
community leaders and governmental officials, the course is being presented to approximately
thirty-five leading citizens from
Greensboro, High Point and
Winston-Salem. Two sessions
will be held in Greensboro; two
in High Point and one in Winston-Salem.
The meeting opened with a
discussion on the "importance of
the Central Business District to
the city", led by Earl W. Weller,
Municipal Consultant and Member, City Planning Commission,
Rochester, New York. Other
speakers at Wednesday's session
included Dr. R. C. Heath, Wake
Forest College, Ronald Scott,
Greensboro City Planning Director, and Robert Kimley, head of
the advance planning section of
the State Highway Commission.
Each session will begin
promptly at 3:30 p.m. and continue until 9 :00 with a break for
dinner from 5 to 7. The series
will cover the problems of the
central business districts and the
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Ceasar Cone Receives Chamber's "Distinguished Citizen Award";
Speaker Urges Participation in Governmental Atfairs
Thomas R. Reid, Civic and Governmental Affairs Manager of
Ford Motor Company, outlined a nine-point program for businessmen to follow in creating wider participation in political and governmental affairs, when he delivered the address at the 83rd Annual
Dinner Meeting of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Reid was introduced by
John B. Hatfield, Vice President
and immediate past President of
the Chamber.
N. P. Hayes presided at the
meeting which was held in the
ballroom of the King Cotton
Hotel on April 12. It was attended by a capacity crowd of
350 persons.
Ceasar Cone was presented
with the Distinguished Citizen
Award. Miles Wolff presented
the citation, which read:
"In grateful recognition of his
many and enduring contributions to the progress and development of Greensboro and the
Piedmont area of North Carolina.
"In the business world he has
directed with distinction and
success the affairs of a great industrial establishment which
has long served as one of the
economic bulwarks of the
Greensboro community.
"He has provided generous financial support to numerous
civic and public projects which
have enriched the lives of our
people. But, above all, he has
unselfishly devoted his time, his
great mental talents, his energy
and wise counsel, and his persuasive influence to the successful culmination of projects
which have placed Greensboro in
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Ceasar Cone is presented the
Chamber's Distinguished Citizen Award by Miles Wolff at
the 83rd annual dinner meeting.
City Beautiful Week
To Be April 25-30
City Beautiful Week will be
held April 25-30. This announcement was made recently by Mrs.
Marvin B. Bennett, chairman of
the Chamber's City Beautiful
Committee for 1960.
Plans for the week consist of
a bus tour for some forty business and civic leaders on Tuesday, April 26. The group will
begin the day with a breakfast
meeting at which time a film,
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