Oral HIstory of NC Community Colleges"Holland McSwain, who was president of Tri-County Tech in Murphy...he went up there as the superintendent of schools in Murphy, and then he became president of this institute. He said these mountain people are so far away from Western Carolina [University], it's almost like going to the beach ... the thing for us to do is to take [college] to them" Dr. William Dallas Herring: Founder of the North Carolina State Community College System
Oral History Interview with William Dallas Herring, February 14, 1987. Interview C-0034. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
