Chowan
The Four-Year College
DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT
Murfreesboro, N.C. 27855
Day for Chowan garners
support and gifts to the college
The second annual Day for Chowan in the Roanoke-
Chowan area raised $112,017 in gifts and pledges in one
day of volunteers' canvassing the communities of four
counties. $37,000 had already been collected in early gifts
to the college. The majority of funds raised will go into the
college's annual fund to be used in Chowan's transition to
four-year institutional status.
"We are pleased and excited about the day's results,"
said O. S. "Buck Suiter, one of the chairmen of the
steering committee which directed the efforts of250 vol
unteers. "We could not have asked for more support and
cooperation from so many people in Bertie, Gates, Hert
ford and Northampton Counties."
Speaking to the 250 volunteers at the kick-off breakfast
in Thomas Cafeteria at Chowan, President Jerry Jackson
said. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what
you are doing for us today."
Volunteers called on over 1,000 prospective contribu-
tOTS in the four counties and returned to various stations
at lunchtime. When all reports were tallied, it was an
nounced at a celebration dinner at the Ella Cobb Camp
President's home on campus that the $100,000 goal had been reached and topped by $12,000.
"We are just delighted with the results," said Lynette Bunch, co-chair of the steering committee, in announcing the total at the dinner.
Over 300 people gathered at the president's home for a buffet dinner and to hear the results of the day.
"I would like to thank everyone, steering committee members, team captains, solicitors, faculty and staff of Chowan College, for all they
did to make Day for Chowan a success in the Roanoke-Chowan area," said E. Vincent Tilson, vice president for development at Chowan.
"It is a gratifying experience to top the goal the committee had set and know there is so much support for the college in our local communities.
Members of the steering committee for Day for Chowan included: Bertie County; Jerry Alexander, J. F. Hoggard, Robert B. Spivey, John
C. P. Tyler, and Marshall Williford; Gates County: Bedford Brown, Mack Eason and Daisy Perry; Northampton County: William B.
Cooley, Grady Jackson, Tom Liverman, Charles W. Stiickland, Jr., Fred Worthington.
From Hertford County, members were: Kathy Beard, Raymond Benthall, Jr., Carolyn Brinkley, Helen Burleson, Dr. Earl V. Capps, Jr.,
Nancy Copeland, Malcolm Copeland, Stanley E. Dixon, J. M. Eason, Terrence N. Evans, Charles W. Freeman, Peter Geilich, Bob F. Hill,
Sr., Martha Alice Jenkins, Jim Mason.ElaineE. Myers, Robert A. Newsome, Jr.,CharlesL.Revelle, 111, W. Frank Rose, Jr., J. Robert Straka,
Dallas Taylor, Jesse Vaughan, H. W. Whidey, and Sadie Mae Whitley
Lynette Bunch, one of the co-chairs of the steering committee for Day for
Chowan, announced the totalfor the day, along with President Jackson. (The
total went up later that evening.)
SECOND CLASS
POSTAGE
PAID
Murfreesboro, N.C.
27855
Volume 36
Number 4
Winter, 1991
CHOWAN
A Newsmagazine for Alumni, Parents and Friends
ODAY
Inside,,,
Homecoming
Remembrances
of Chowanian
Society
A Lifetime
of Chronicles
The Freshman Year
Experience
Against all odds - freshmen
overcome anxiety and a
"mountain " of books,
see page 5.
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Photo by Sophomore
Brian Crumb.