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Chowan community chorus debuts
Accompanied by a thirteen-piece orchestra, forty-one
members of the Chowan Community Chorus, presented
Franz Josef Haydns “The Seven Last Words of Christ” May
4. Haydns work, written in the late 1700s as an Easter
Celebration for Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy of Austria,
includes a movement for each of the seven statements
spoken by Christ on the cross. Solos were performed by
soprano Margaret Jackson ‘98, Kill Devil Hills, N.C., alto
Penny Davis, Pendleton, N.C., tenot Antuan Hawkins ‘98,
Kinston, N.C., and bass Danny Vancil, Ahoskie, N.C.. The
orchestra featured Chowan’s woodwind section and string
players from N.C. and S.C. Symphony Orchestras.
Chamber Day at Chowan
Chamber of Commerce members from Hertford, Bertie,
Chowan and Southampton counties converged under a huge
white tent in Squirrel Park for a rare joint event on April 30.
Visitors enjoyed a trout dinner, brief campus tour and door
prizes. John Cutter, direaor of the annual fund, coordinated
the event.
Mission & Vision Cup goes to CSV
The majestic new silver Mission and Vision Cup was
awarded to members of the Christian Student Union (CSU)
by President Stanley Lott at the First Annual Leadership
Awards reception held April 19. The reception for campus
leaders was sponsored by the Office of Student Involvement
to honor excellence within campus dubs and organizations.
Other “Best” awards included:
Fundraising - Science Club
Philanthropy - CSU
Ongoing Community Service - Phi Kappa Tau
One-time Community Service - History Qub
Campus-wide Program - Campus Progam Board
Educational Progam - History Qub
Emerging Leader - Ayrako West ‘00
Officer - Carol Johnson ‘98
President - Laura Allgood ‘98
Advisor - John Tayloe
Motsosiient auction
Activity was fistic as last-minute bidders scurried to write
bids and guard penned offers for original drawings, prints,
ceramics, glass and photographs. The items were offered for
sale during Green Hall Gallery’s Silent An Auction. More
than $1,000 was raised to purchase supplies for the depart
ment of art.
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CSU officers Weylon Smith '00, Melanie Peterson “99
and Meg Jackson ‘98 r^oice in winning the Mission &
Vision Cup with President Stanley Lott.
Greeks adopt highway
Members of Kapp Sigma and Future Sisters of Chowan
combined efforts to dean up a section of Murfreesboro by
parridpating in the national Adopt-a-Highway program. It
was the first major, joint projea undertaken by a fiatemity
and a sorority-interest group at Chowan.
Senior artists exhibit
The 1998 Senior Exhibition showcased the art of four
graduating seniors during April. A variety of work induding
ponery, painting, drawing and graphic design by Lauren
Bellobuono, Hackettstown, N.J., Ayumi Kase, Chiba, Japan,
Allison Murray, Charlotte, N.C. and Tracy Pope, Wadesboro,
N.C, was featured in Green Hall Gallery.
Music department unveiis visiting artist series
Pianist Henry Doskey inaugurated the department of music’s
Visiting Artist Series in Daniel Redtal Hall during April. A
member of the artist faculty at East Carolina University School
of Music and instruaor of piano masterclasses at New York’s
Chautauqua Summer Institute, the award-winning artist
performed Sergei RachmaninofFs “Thirteen Preludes, Opus
32” (1910).
Journalist A.C. Snow treats library friends
North Carolina Journalism Hall of Fame member and former
Raleigh Times newspaper editor A.C. Snow entertained guests
at the annual Friends of the Library banquet during March. A
native of Siury County foothills. Snow likes to tell how he
graduated from Dobson High School, “I was a member of the
only class to graduate from the county courthouse because
someone burned down the school.” Holding 15 North
Carolina Press Association awartls. Snow has published four
collections of his columns in book form.
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Curriculum changes
Three new minors offlaed in the fall of 1998 indude:
psychology, communication and drama. As a bonus for
Mary Jo Ellis, administrative assistant to the vice
president far academic affairs. President Stanley Lott
and Chris Rupsch, visual art chair, ponder favorite
pieces in the Green Hall Gallery silent auction.
audiences, establishment of the drama minor will mean two
major productions a year for theatergoers. A full four-year
program is now in place to offer the bachelor of science in
aiminal justice. The bachelor of arts in music will begin to
offer majon the option to sdea an emphasis from perfor
mance, conduaing or church music. The Chowan Wind
Ensemble and Chowan Singers will selea members by
audition only while the Pep Band and Chowan Chorus will
offer open memberships.
Chowan 4 00 Today
The need to rise at 5:30 a.m. and face NYC’s winter winds
on a Friday the 13th didn’t keep Laura Allgood ‘98, Kristi
Canady ‘97, Frances Eason ‘96 and Seth Reffit ‘99 from
appearing on the Today show. Smuggled into a bag onboard
the art department’s tour bus, Chowan’s blue and white
banner unfurled proudly in front of the cameras.
Dishes, dust & dirt
Students of Darmy Moore’s Introduction to Public History
dass took advantage of the availability of household appli
ances from Murfreesboro’s Brady C. Jefcoat Museum
Collection to create a period museum exhibit, “Dishes, Dust,
and Duty Floors: The Household Responsibilities of
Southern Rural Women in the Early Twentieth Century,” at
the Old Murfreesboro High School Museum.
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Introduction to Public History students April Stone 99
and Robert Lupton '01 explained-old household
appliattce fiinctions to visitors during the Dishes, Dust
and Dirty Floors exhibit.
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