Campus News
Students honored in
Who's Who in America
The 1992 edlUon of WHO’S
WHO AMONG STUDENTS IN
AMERICAN JUNIOR COLLEGES
wUl include the names of 20
students from Chowan College
who have been selected as na
tional outstanding campus
leaders.
Campus nominating commit
tees and editors of the annual
directory have included the
names of these students based
on their academic achievement,
service to the community, leader
ship in extracurricular activities
and potential for continued
success.
They Join an elite group of
students selected from more than
1,400 institutions of higher
learning in all 50 states, the
District of Columbia and several
foreign nations.
Outstanding students have
been honored In the annual
directory since it was first pub
lished in 1934.
Students named this year
from Chowan College, and their
hometowns, cire: Jessica Carver,
Black Mountain, N.C.; Helena
Curran, Mahasset, N.Y.; Robert
Deacon, Conway, N.C.: Christie
Denson, Virginia Beach, Va.;
Jason Drake, Ahoskle, N.C.;
Tracey Francis, Murfreesboro,
N.C.; Preston Gist, Jr., Char
lotte, N.C.; Julie Jordan,
Aulander, N.C.; Tammy Joyner,
Ahoskle, N.C.: Melissa Lewellen,
Belhaven; Michael Moore, Colo
nial Heights, VA.; Christina
Perkinson, Suffolk, VA.; John
Tayloe, Aulander, N.C.; Natalie
Taylor, Eure, N.C.; Patricia
Trudel, Chelmsford, Ma.; Joyce
White, Murfreesboro, N.C.;
Stephen White, Eure, N.C.; Amy
Wojtkowski, Granite Quarry,
N.C.; Phillip Wilson, Little River,
S.C.; Mellsa Wright, Franklin,
Va.
The campus is swinging this spring!
Photo by freshman Nestor Varona
News Notes
Chowan signs transfer agreements
New English courses offered at Chowan
Chowan has signed transfer
agreements with four community
colleges easing the way for trans
fer students to enter four-year
degree programs.
Agreements have been signed
with Eastern Shore Community
College in Virginia; Roanoke-
Chowan Community College in
Ahoskle; Halifax Community
College in Roanoke Rapids and
Paul D. Camp Community Col
lege in Franldin, Virginia.
Spivey elected
chairs executive
Robert B. Spivey, of Windsor,
has been elected chairman of the
Chowan College Board of Trust
ees, according to Dr. Jerry F.
Jackson, president of the college.
Spivey has served for one year as
chairman and was elected to
serve a second one-year term by
the board of trustees. He served
two previous terms as a Chowan
trustee and advisor.
Thomas M. McCrary, of
Raleigh, was elected vice chair
man of the board. W. Frank
Rose, Jr., of Rose Bros. Paving,
Ahoskle, was elected chairman of
According to Dr. Franklin
Lowe, vice president for academ
ics at Chowan, students who
have completed general education
programs at these community
colleges can transfer to Chowan
with Junior status.
For more information about
transferring to Chowan, contact
the Office of Admissions, P.O.
Box 1848, Murfreesboro, N. C.;
398-4101.
chairman. Rose
committee
the executive committee of the
board of trustees.
Spivey recently retired as vice
president of LADD Furniture,
Inc., and as president of Lea
Lumber and Plywood Division. A
Windsor native, he Is a Sunday
School teacher and past chair
man of the Board of Deacons at
Cashle Baptist Church. He
currently serves as a director on
the Hospital Board of Directors of
Pitt Memorial Hospital in
GreenvUle and as a director of the
Hope Foundation in Windsor.
Shakespeare, Faulkner, the
Romantic poets, Chaucer, modem
drama - - as subjects, these are
discussed right now in English
classes at Chowan. But, next
year, entire courses focusing on
these individueil subjects will be
offered as Chowan offers the four-
year degree In English. Although
designed particularly for English
majors, these courses will also
satisfy elective requirements for
anyone who wants to take an
upper level English course.
In the fall, Chowan will offer
these three new English courses:
Shakespeare, Fiction, and Intro
duction to Literary Studies. Next
spring, the college expects to offer
Medieval Literature, Romantic
Literature, and Advanced Gram
mar or Advanced Composition.
For the next couple of years,
entirely new courses wUl be
The Krueger School of
Graphic Communicationa, Dean
Gilbert, chaimian of the depart
ment, and Peter Squire, director
of development for printing
technology .were featured in the
December issue of The Plea
Scanner.
Dr. Ken Craig and Dr. Dayid
Gowler, professors of religion,
participated in the 1991 meeting
of American Academy of Religion
/ Society of Biblical Literature.
Dr. Craig presented a paper
entitled "Asking for Rhetoric:
Questions in the Deuteronomlc
History." Dr. Gowler chaired the
session on Rhetoric and the New
Testament.
Carole Nicholson, professor
of music, was selected to serve as
a Judge at two piano competitions
this spring: The Extern
offered In order to fulflU the needs
of English majors.
Many students major in
English because they want to
teach grammar or literature, or
they wish to continue talking
about literature in a classroom
situation. As part of the four-
year degree curriculum, students
at Chowan will also be able to
earn certification to teach En
glish.
An English major takes 36
hours of literary studies above
English 101 and 102.
Shakespeare is required and so is
an advanced grammar or ad
vanced composition course. For
more information about the
English program at Chowan,
contact Dr. Ken Wolfskill, chair
man of the department of lan
guage and literature, 398-4101,
Ext. 242.
N.C. Federation of Music Clubs
Festival at the School of Music at
East Carolina University in
February and the Raleigh Young
Artists ^holarshlp Auditions at
Meredith College In March.
Linda Tripp, director of
counseling, and Gilbert Tripp,
professor of science, took an
"outreach" Journey on February
10 and 11 to Cape Hatteras
School in Buxton, N. C. — a
small rural school on the Outer
Banks. They taught classes,
conducted labs and lectures in
DNA extraction, biology, and
other topics for over 600 students
for two days.
Phyllis Dewar, professor of
science, sdso "reached out" to
students at the Island Academy
in Buxton as part of the speaker's
bureau progrzun at Chowan.
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