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Suzanne Clifton — motivation is her style As corporate executives go, Suzanne Qifton, class of 1964, is unique, in more ways than one. Her company is listed in the Inc. 500 list of America’s fastest-growing private companies. She is one of the North Carolina Research Triangle’s most successful women coiporate execu tives, but she started out as a teacher and didn’t get into her own business until 1984 at her husband’s urging. “While 1 worked for another com pany, I found myself wanting to give clients more,” says Suzanne Qifton, who as president of Executive Tem poraries of Cary, has two office loca tions in the Research Triangle. “I felt an urgent need to start my own busi ness and get things right. I already knew a lot about business. Yes, my husband has always been a motivat ing factor, but it was my inner motiva tion that did it, and the fact that I’m the kind of individual who never does just enough. I always do more than what is expected.” Suzanne has accomplished more than “what is expected” in busiiKSS, supervising a staff of eleven perma nent employees and over 250 tempo raries plac^ in corporations and in dustries in North Carolina. “Human resources is one of the fastest-growing industries in the coun Suzanne Clifton try today. With the current economy, this industry is recession-proof. Com panies are not hiring new employees, but have a need for temporaries to fdl their needs,” remarks Suzanne. The executive who says she ‘con centrates on giving a service that is top-notch’, has personally trained each of her employees so well that when she had to be out this past year (fight ing and overcoming breast cancer), her office continued to operate smoothly. From Roanoke Rapids, Suzanne attended Chowan in 1962 because of the extension program the college had in Roanoke Rapids. She was married at the time, and had her first child the year after she graduated in 1964. She recalls professors like Mr. Sexton for history and remembers well hearing about the assassination of John F. Kennedy as she walked across the Chowan campus. “We were so committed back then,” she recalls. “We were very directed and organized. I enjoyed my days at Chowan very much.” Today, she has two sons, William Matthew Savage, and Roderick Brooks Savage, who woric for her husband at his janitorial contracting company. She is currendy serving as chair person of the Chowan Board of Visi tors and says she is delighted at the four-year decision. “I think it’s wonderful. Eastern North Carolina needs a good four-year school because just as it was when I went to school, so many students like to stay close to home to go to college and earn a degree. Chowan will be a great stepping stone for them.” “Dr. Jackson is certainly an asset to the college and has some of the best ideas. I believe he cares about the school and the people who woric there,” Suzanne continued. On giving advice to rising students in business, Suzaime pauses. “I would tell them to strive for the top because it is out there for them. We live in America. I have traveled and seen other countries enough to know we have everything in America at our fingertips. With hard work and dedication, and if you give it your all, it can be yours.” A living example of her own ad vice, Suzanne Qifton is certainly a role model for all students of business and the epitome of self-motivational success. Step into the art world right here at Chowan Collegei f You can almost hear the swish of paintbrushes and the sounds of a pot tery wheel coming from Green Hall, home of the art department at Chowan, but if you listen closely, you’ll hear something else too. Green Hall is the place on campus where students can find true artistic expression. It is here that art students create the drawings and pieces of pot tery that they will probably remember the rest of their lives. Pieces that they will save and later say, “Oh, yeah, I remember that from art class at Chowan.” “We are like one big happy family over here in Green Hall,” explains Doug Eubank, art professor and pot ter. He teaches ceramics, drawing, 3- D design and figure drawing and is proud of his students and the depart ment as a whole. “The faculty in the art department work very hard to counsel students with the goal of retention. We really get to know our students and become their ‘home away from home.’ Professor Eubank describes the re lationships that develop between art professors and art students as one of comraderie and breaking down of bar riers. That is one of the reasons the art department has one of the highest re tention rates on campus. “Over half of these art majors will have dinner over at my house before the year is over,” Eubank remarics laughingly. “We go out of our way to help students, even if it means going to the grocery store with them or help ing them out financially when it’s needed. We have about ^ art majors and we get to know every one of them before they leave us.” One of the most favorite activities of art students is the annual trip to New York City which groups of art ists have been doing every fall since 1974. Led by the ‘fearless’ Doug Eubank, the trip usually involves the faculty from the art department, stu dents and former students, and com munity members interested in art. They have the opportunity to tour the Mu seum of Modem Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and either the Whit ney or Guggenheim museums. “It is always a memorable trip be cause the students will usually see someone famous, and we always en joy going out to eat. It’s a chance for our Japanese students to go to a Sushi bar,” says the professor. The Chowan art department is not just known for great trips or for ‘help ing students’. The department, chaired by well-known artist, David Parker, is recognized as one of the outstanding college art departments in the state. Because of superior facilities and a dedicated staff, Chowan’s art depart ment is as strong as many four-year art departments. In ceramics, Chowan excels in that the college offers stu dents both gas-fired reduction and salt kilns. Many schools,' according to Eubank, just have electric kilns, which limit the kinds of pottery they can do. Chowan is also strong in commer cial art, which many students enter the department for because of its lu crative career opportunities. Stanley Mitchell, professor of commercial art, teaches a three-year curriculum which is highly respected in the field. Many students who graduate from Chowan’s commercial art programs go on to successful art careers. Art Professor Susan Fecho also prepares students to enter the com petitive field of commercial art, teach ing illustration, color and design, and print-making. She also teaches art appreciation in the department. “We recruit students to enter Professor Doug Eubank instructs a group of budding artists on figure drawing. Chowan by holding a high school art competition in the spring,” states Eubank. “We provide scholarships based on portfolio review and two departmental scholarships for students who enter the art competition. Many times we encourage students who are taking an art class and show talent to' consider art as a major.” And there is talent at work in Green Hall. Just a walk by the easels in the beginning painting course taught by David Parker is like visiting a mini museum. Parker, who is widely known throughout eastern North Carolina for his pastoral landscapes, has been teach ing art at Chowan for almost twenty years. He has discovered many bud ding artists and is a local authority on the late artist Francis Speight who was artist in residence at East Carolina for many years. Works by Francis Speight are on display in the permanent collection of the art department in Green Hall, as well as several other important works the department has acquired over the years. Changing exhibits appear in the art gallery in Green featuring local artists in the state. Chowan faculty members present their work armually as do the art students in the spring. About the transition to four-year, the resident artist professors are pleased. They all express that they are looking forward to working with up per level students and to more com prehensive course offerings. So often students are just beginning to realize their potentid at the end of a two-year course. So, if you are on campus for any reason in the near future, stop into Green Hall. You are sure to see some works of art, and you just might hear the true sounds of, not only artistic expression, but the happiness of friend ship and comraderie that exist there. PAGE 8 — Chowan Today — Spring, 1991
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