Campus News
29 students named
to Who’s Who list
The 1991 edition of Who’s Who
Among Students in American Junior
Colleges will include the names of 29
students from Chowan College who
have been selected as national out
standing campus leaders.
Campus nominating committees
and editors of the armual directory have
included the names of these students
based on their academic achievement,
service to the community, leadership
in extracurricular activities and poten
tial for continued success.
They join an elite group from more
than 1,400 institutions of higher learn
ing in all 50 states, the District of
Columbia and several foreign nations.
Outstanding students have been
honored in this armual directory since
it was first published in 1934.
Students named this year from
Chowan College and their hometowns
are: Kenneth Akers, Raleigh N.C.;
Christopher Aycock, Seaford, Va.;
Susan Bailey, Bluemont, Va.; Lisa
Bunce, Seffner, Florida; Michael
Chrissie, Sanford, N.C.; Benny Telford
Copeland, Suffolk, Va.; Allison
Crouch, Norlina, N.C.; Stacey Curry,
Staunton, Va.; Dennis Dunlow,
Colerain, N.C.; John Falls, EarlysviUe,
Va.; Julie Godwin, Ahoskie, N.C.;
Tyrone Goins, Chapel Hill, N.C.;
Susan Harmon, Ahoskie, N.C.; An
drea Hines, Hillsborough, N.C.; Yuko
Kato, Japan; Graham Komegay, War
saw, N.C.; Elizabeth McCarthy, Clin
ton, CT; Jill Overton, Ahoskie, N.C.;
Christopher Pitt, Hopewell, Va.; Gary
Robinson, Aurora, N.C.; Gregory
Rollins, King George, Va.; Kelvin
Sprangley, Whitakers, N.C.; Reginald
Taylor, Prince George, Va.; Frederick
Vinson, Murfreesboro, N.C.; Joyce
Williams, Hopewell, Va.; Queen Es
ther Williams, Greenville, N.C.
Dr. Garth Faile, chairman of the department of math and science, delivered the
keynote address at Spring Convocation on January 21. He delighted the audi
ence with his rendition of the “Little Train that Could”.
Spivey named chairman of board
Robert B. Spivey, of Windsor, N.C., three children, James Lowell Spivey, retired farmei and active citizen in
has been named chairman of the' Debra Spivey Jemigan and Gwen Winterville where he and his wife re- Robert
Chowan College Board of Tnistees Spivey. His hobby is flying airplanes. side and they tiave one son. He is a Spivey
according to Dr. Jerry F. Jackson! Members of the board of trustees graduate of Wake Forest University ^
president ofthecoUege. He has served are elected by the Baptist State Con- and has served on numerous boards *
two terms as a Chowan trustee and vention of North Carolina to serve and committees during his career in tion in Henderson,
advisor four-year terms to advise and recom- politics and education. Other members of the executive
Soivev recently retired as vice presi- mend policies to the coUege admini- Charles L. ReveUe, III, an attorney committee of the board of tnistees who
dent of LADD Furniture, Inc., and as stration. with Revelle, Burleson. Lee and advise the president of the coUege on
president of Lea Lumber and Plywood Vernon E. White, of WinterviUe, ReveUe in Murfreesboro, has been policy and administrative matters are:
Divicinn A Windsor native he is a has been named vice-chairman of the named chairman of the executive SamE. Ewell, Jr., of Enfield; M. Frank
SndTy SchooTteacSer and p^st chair- board. committee of the board of trustees. Edwards, of Rocky Mount; Bob F.
man ofthe Board of Deacons at Cashie White, who served for 16 years in Felix C. McDaniel, of Henderson, has Hill, Sr., of Murfreesboro; Elaine
Baptist Church. He currently serves *e North Carolina Senate, is origi- been named vice chairman of the ex- Myers, of Ahoskie; David Parker, of
as a director on the Hospital Board of Hertford County where ecutive committee. He is vice presi- Rocky Mount; and W. Frank Rose, of
Directors ofPitt Memorial Hospital in Chowan College is located. He is a dent of finance for Americal Corpora- Ahoskie.
Greenville and as a director of the ^ ^ ^
"Te?SSr“L„Na- SuttOH TBtircs SLS V1C6 president
tional Bank, serves on the board of
directors of CADA, and is a member Benjamin C. member of the accreditauon commit- Sutton is the co-founder, director
of the Windsor Lions Qub and Public Sutton, vice tee of the Southern Association of Col- and past president of the Hertford
Industrial Council. president for leges and Schools. He also published County Committee of 100 to attract
His past civic service in Bertie business affairs ^ a book, “College Store Executive”. business and industry to the county.
County includes county commissioner Chowan Col- ^ active member of the The Ben C. Sutton, Sr. Scholarship
for 10 years, president of the Windsor announced * Murfreesboro Baptist Church where was recently initiated at Chowan by
Lions Qub,'and chairman ofthe Mid- his retirement E he has served on the finance commit- his son Ben C. Sutton, Jr.
East Commission, Alliance for Prog- the college M tee, is a choir member, former deacon Sutton is married to Valerie Hutch-
ress, and Bertie County N.C. 2000. effective Febru- and Sunday School teacher. erson, an English teacher in the Aca-
Hei’spastchainnanoftheN.C.,S.C., ary 1,1991. Ben C. Sutton His civic activities include service demic Support program here at
Va. Hardwood Plywood Manufactur- Sutton, who as a director of the N.C. Baptist Em- Chowan College, and they have six
ers Association ^ Murfreesboro as the business ployees Credit Union. children.
Spivey is the recipient of the Sperry meager for the college in 1961, is
and Hutchinson National Citizenship originally from Alamance County . -r. ?
Award. He and his wife, Shirley, have where he graduated from Mebane High
School. He received the bachelor’s
q, j degree in business administration from i
^nowan loaay Wake Forest University where he was j
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He served in the Amiy during 1952-
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of Finance. /
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SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID AT 1990 without a dcficit. The Chowan College Stage Band and Chowan Chorus made a joyful noise at
MURFREESBOHO.HC.278S5 wWlc at Chowan, he served as a their program of Christmas music in December.
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