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President of Fred A. Olds PTA., 1948-49; previously and subsequently served as member and/or chairman of various committees.
Received Honorary Degree of Doctor of Sciences from Catawba College, June 1, 1953.
Mr. Little moved that the recommendation for apponitment of Dr. Carey H. Bostian as Chancellor at State College be approved. The motion was seconded by Mr. Riddle and was approved by unanimous vote. Mr. Sutton moved that the entire Board go on record as thanking the Committee and President Gray for their work in connection with this recommendation. The motion was seconded and was approved.
Mr. Pearsall, Chairman of a Committee appointed to draft a resolution of appreciation of Chancellor Harrelson, read the following resolution and moved its adoption:

RESOLUTION
UPON RETIREMENT OF COLONEL JOHN W. HARRELSON AS CHANCELLOR OF NORTH CAROLINA STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND ENGINEERING
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On August 31st, John W. Harrelson retires as Chancellor of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering. To students, faculty and friends, he has been long and affectionately known as "The Colonel", and he will be referred to as "The Colonel" in this tribute. The Colonel's record of service to State College psans almost a half century. Starting as a freshman in the year 1905, he was a valedictorian graduate in 1909; 1911 Graduate Manager of College Athletics; 1915, received a MAster's Degree in Mechanical Engineering; 1918, MAjor with the Army General Staff in Washington; 1919 Lieutenant Colonel in Coast Artillery Reserves; 1923, full Colonel, Field Artillery; 1929-33, Director fo the North Carolina Department on Conservation and Development; 1933, Head of College Mathematics Department, 1934, frst Dean of Administration of State College under Consolidation, the first alumnus at State College to head the College; 1943-44, on leave as Deputy Chief, Army Specialized Training Program in Fourth Service Command; 1945-53, Chancellor of North Carolina State College of Agriculture and Engineering.
Such is the personal record of the Colonel. The record of N. C. State College during that same period is just as interesting. With the Colonel at State College in 1905 were 480 students in a million dollar plant. When the Colonel was elected Dean of Administration of State College under a Consolidation in 1934, he took the helm of a depression ridden institution with a student body of 1800 and a plant valued at five million dollars. Upon retirement, the Colonel places in the hands of his successora College with over 3500 students from 100 Counties of North Carolina, 44 states, 40 nations, and a plant valued at over twenty-fiv e million dollars. Today, we find State College completing the last of two major building programs under the Colonel's administration, including 7 new dormitories, 11 new and 4 renovated teaching-research-extension buildings, a new library, the Reynolds Coliseum, a Student Union center, and a Nuclear Reactor for civilian training at a cost of approximately $15,300,000.
Not as contrete in physical composition but equally important in the life of the College are the several Foundations conceived and brought into being under the Colonel's administration. The Foundations today have had a total income of $2,223,406.83. With the financial aid of these foundations, North Carolina State College has been agle to attract and hold well-known scientists, teachers and extension specialists.
As a result, the College now perhaps has the most outstanding group of young scientists of any technical college in the South and equal to the best in the Nation.
In the face of determined efforts and strong tempation, the Colonel has held the scholastic standards of the College high, requiring students to reach up to the high scholastic standards of the College rather than lower such standards to the level of ill-prepared freshmen. As a result, the College today enjoys the hgihest standard of scholastic excellence in its history.