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Faculty Happenings Craig appointed to the Fagan Chair of Religion Dr. Kenneth M. Craig, Jr., interim chairman of the department of reli gion and philosophy, has been elected to the E. Lee Oliver Fagan Chair of Bible and Religion at Chowan. The chair is the first established at the college and was funded with an initial gift of $130,000 by the late Lee O. Fagan of Stanardsville, Va. in memory of his mother who graduated ft^m Qiowan in 1893. Fagan served as a member of Chowan’s Board of Advisors until his death in March of 1977. The Fagan Chair was previously held by Dr. Earl H. Parker, professor of religion, who died last year. Dr. Craig, who previously served as a Hebrew instructor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, re ceived the B.A. from Wake Forest University, which included a semes ter of study at Worrell House, Lon don, England. He received the Master of Divinity and the Ph.D. from South ern Baptist Theological Seminary. During the academic year of 1987- 88, he conducted research and partici pated in seminars at the Porter Insti tute and Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature at Tel Aviv University in Israel. He is co-founder and former man aging editor of Paradigms, a religious studies journal, and currently serves as book review editor for Pulpit Di gest, a journal for clergy published by Harper Collins. He has just completed a book manu script, “The Poetics of Jonah: Art in the Service of Ideology,” and an ar ticle entitled “The Deuteronomic His torian in Question Land: the Rhetoric of Rhetorical and Other Questions.” Dr. Craig has served as professor of religion and philosophy at Chowan since 1989, and as interim chairman of the department since the fall of 1990. His professional experience also includes Garrett Fellow, Southern Bap- Dr. Ken Craig caught in action in the popular profesors. tist Theological Seminary and Hebrew instructor, Simmons Bible College. During recent years. Dr. Craig has presented papers at regional and na tional Society of Biblical Literature meetings. His articles have appeared in journals such as The Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Perspec tives in Religious Studies, and College Music Symposium. He also writes book classroom, is one of Chowan’s most reviews for Catholic Biblical Quar terly, Christian Century, Journal of Biblical Literature. While at Chowan, Dr. Craig has started the new Environmental Oub on campus. He is currently serving as an interim pastor in Seaboard, N.C. He is married to Niki Craig and they reside in Murfreesboro arxi have one daughter, Alexandra. New facultyf staff assume positions on campus Director of Freshman Experience Austine Odom Evans, of Ahoskie, has joined the staff of Chowan Col lege as the Director of Academic Advisement and the Freshman Year Experience Program Evans received the B.S. degree in biology and the M.A.Ed. in counsel ing from Wake Forest University with the certificate of advanced studies in counseling from East Carolina Uni versity. She previously served as the direc tor of admissions for Peace College in Raleigh and as a guidance counselor with Hertford County Schools. She has been named an Outstanding Young Educator in America. She has served a three-year term on the Board of Trustees of Peace Col lege and a four-year term on the Wake Forest University Board of Trustees. Her college career activities included membership in the S.O.P.H. Society, College Union, cheerleading, gradu ation marshall. Who’s Who Among American College Students, and Phi Delta Kappa—Honorary Education. Evans is an active member of the First Baptist Church in Ahoskie. She is married to Ernest L. Evans of Ahoskie and they have two children, Tina, a senior at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, and Brad, a freshman at Hertford County High School. Business Department Patsy Woodard Taylor, of Conway, is the new professor of merchandise management in the department of business. Taylor received the bache lor’s of science in home economics (clothing and textiles) and the mas ter’s of arts in education (marketing education) from East Carolina Uni versity in Greenville. She has nine years of merchandising experience with Belk stores in Murfreesboro, Austine Evans Patsy Taylor I Ik Martha Stockstill Janice Spivey Ahoskie, and Goldsboro in such ca pacities as sales associate, systems coordinator, management trainee, and division manager/buyer. She is married to Stacy Taylor and they have one daughter, Kaitlyn Rae. She is a member of Ashley’s Grove Baptist Church in Conway. New English Professor Also joining the Chowan Faculty this spring is Martha S. Stockstill fill ing a temporary appointment as pro fessor of English. Professor Stoclitill comes to Chowan from Belhaven Col lege in Jackson, Mississippi. She received the bachelor’s of sci ence and the master’s degree in Eng lish from the University of Alabama. She completed graduate studies at the University of Florida and the Univer sity of Southern Mississippi with ex tensive experience in teaching Eng lish as a second language to students. She was actively involved as a mem ber of the First Baptist Church in Jackson, Miss. She was married to the late Eugene H. Stockstill and has two sons, Eugene, Jr. and Lee Stockstill of Jackson, Miss. New Librarian A new school librarian has joined the staff of Whitaker Library at Chowan. Janice Tucker Spivey, of Aulander, comes to Chowan from the Bertie County Schools where she served as a teacher and librarian. She received the bachelor’s of science in eariy childhood, reading and language and the master’s of library science from East Carolina University. She is the past president of International Reading Association in Bertie County, and holds memberships in the North Carolina Association of Educators, North Carolina Library Association, and N.C. Educational Media Associa tion. A member of Connaritsa Baptist Church, she is married and has two children. ^acuCty y^octis Carole Nicholson, professor of music, was invited by Wake Forest University to serve as a judge for the Giles-Harris Competitions in musical perfomiance held at the university on February 23. Professor Nicholson also is serving as a judge at the piano festival at N. C. Wesleyan CoUege in Rocky Mount in March. David Parker, chairman of the art department, and Doug Eubank, pro fessor of art, have a two-aitist show of new works on exhibit at Arlington Hall Gallery in GreenviUe. Parker also recently served as a juror at the Suffolk Student Art Exhibit. The photographs of Frank Stephenson, Jr., director of the Upward Bound Program, were featured in a photographic essay on The Herring Fisherman at the North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, N.C. Stephenson also received a certificate of appreciation from the Choanoke Area Development Association for three years of service as chairman of the board of directors for that organization from 1988-1990. CADA serves Hertford, Bertie, Halifax and Northampton Counties pro viding services for area residents. Dr. David Gowler, professor of religion and philosophy, has been asked to edit the book, Recruitment, Conquest and Conflict in Judaism, Early Christianity and the Greco-Roman World, as part of the Emory Studies in Eariy Christianity series. The woiks of art professor, Susan Fecho, were featured in the Christ mas Show of the Krasl Art Center in St. Joseph, Michigan. Dr. Car! Garrott has been invited by the College Division of Harper Collins Publishers to evaluate and review VOILA, Second Edition. John Virkler, professor of economics, a major in the U.S. Army Ready Reserves, was called into active duty on February 22. He is serving as chaplain at Fort Bragg, N.C. PAGE 4 — Chowan Today — Spring, 1991
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