Students Repudiate Statements That They Gave Trustees Petition Demanding They Replace Riddick With Gardner, Jan. 31, 1921

By Max Abernethy

Raleigh, July 31—Students of State College today made public resolutions drafted by them branding as absolutely false published statements that a petition had been circulated and placed in the hands of the trustees demanding the resignation of Wallace C. Riddick and the appointment of O. Max Gardner as his successor.

“It is our opinion that such propaganda circulated at such a time when the appropriations for the various state institutions are being considered by the joint sub committee of the legislature neither originated from the students or friends of the indtitution,” the statement says.

The resolutions bear the signatures of C.D. Kirkpatrick, president of the senior class, and other class presidents.

(From the front page of the Hickory Daily Record, Monday evening, January 31, 1921)