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’ y&' Loans, Scholarships Help Students Continue School MURFREESBORO - More than, $230,950 in loans and scholar ships is helping many worthy Chowan College students continue their education without sacrific ing too much time for outside employment. Through its Competitive Honor Scholarship Program, admin- ; istered by the college’s Scholar- I ship Committee, Chowan offers financial assistance to 23 out standing students each year. Pri mary emphasis for awarding scholarships is on the demon stration of academic ability, mo tivation and seriousness of pur pose. Each year Chowan awards five Competitive Honor Scholar ships valued at $1,000 each, eight valued at $500 each and 19 val ued at $300 each. A number of other scholarships are also of fered by Chowan and interested friends of the college. Since 1959 Chowan has par ticipated in the National Defense Student Loan Program and Ben C. Sutton, Chowan’s business manager, reveals that more than 600 students have received loans through this program. Commitments to more than 90 students last year accounted for loans in excess of $60,000. The Guaranteed Student Loan Program, administered by the College Foundation, Inc., head quartered in Raleigh, loaned $15,700 to 25 other students. The State Educational Assistance Authority, division of the Board of Higher Education of N. C., is also working to find other sources of financial aid to students. On either loan, while the stu dent takes a full load of college studies, no interest is charged the student or the interest is paid by the federal government and interest begins to be charged at three per cent nine months after the borrower ceases to be a full time student. Education Funds, Inc., a pri vate agency in Providence, R. I., lends money at five per cent, allowing students to meet college expenses on a budget plan and 59 students lastyearborrowed more tlian $54,000. Chowan College also makes Jobs available to assist worthy students and offer on-the-job training in specialized courses of study. Children’s Author Gives Manuscripts To Alma Mater BAND LEADERS — Teaching her stu dents to lead their bands as majorettes during Chowan's majorette school is Joan Cox, former University of Tennessee ma jorette ond "Miss Majorette of America." Faculty Enrichment Program Upgrades Academic Strength RALEIGH - Continual upgrad ing ofChowanCollege’s academic strength through faculty enrich ment was made possible when the General Board of the Baptist State Convention of North Caro lina approved a recommendation from its executive committee that Chowan be allowed to participate in the Higher Education Act of 1965, under title HI of this act. This historic decision came during the General Board’s reg ular January meeting in Raleigh. The college’s trustees had pre viously approved the General Board’s recommendation and trustee chairman H. Douglas White of Rocky Mount was instni- mental In bringing it before the executive committee and the Gen eral Board. Under the program, faculty members are recipients ofbene- flts, rather than the college. Aid will be extended to individual faculty members to pursue fur ther graduate study at a cooperat ing university. A teaching fellow from the cooperating university, approved bv Chowan’s admini stration and trustees, will be paid by the fund to teach at Chowan while the faculty member is away. Counselors from cooperating universities will receive pay as consultants to work with Cho wan’s faculty in upgrading the curriculum. This is an arrangement to last about two years. During this time Chowan’s faculty will have ample opportunity to upgrade itself, with professors gaining further educational preparation and completing woilt on advanced degrees. The General Board acts for the Baptist state Convention of North Carolina when the conven tion is not in session. During the convention’s most recent annual session, November 14, 1967, at Asheville, approval was given for Mars Hill College to inaugu rate a program of faculty enrich ment under title ni. Higher Edu cation Act of 1965. Chowan was the second of North Carolina’s seven Baptist colleges to inaugu rate such a program. MURFREESBORO - Original manuscripts for books she has authored have been contributed to Chowan College by Flora Mae Hood, well-known author of chil dren’s books who graduated from Chowan in 1926 and has lived in New Mexico while pursuing her writing career. She is credited with records for long-distance collaboration on historical volumes, co- authoring a history of the legen dary Uncle Sam with a New York newspaperman from her New Mexico home. This book, aimed at the younger set between ages eight and 12, surveys the career of Samuel Wilson, who served under George Washington during the Revolutionary War and, by act of Congress, is now recog nized as the original Uncle Sam. Her co-author, Thomas L, Gerson of Troy, N, Y., was also recognized as the official his torian of Uncle Sam until his recent death. They were working together, he was researching and she was writing - by long-dis- tance telephone, on a biography of Samuel Wilson for adult read ers when he died. Miss Hood’s books Include “Pink Puppy,” “One Luminaria for Antonio,” Something for the Medicine Man,” “The Longest Beard in the World” and “Uncle Sam.” A Navajo picture book by Miss Hood is to be published next year and she is also completing a book about Seminole Indians. She in forms friends at Chowan that arthritis, forcing her to become a two-finger typist, has not halted her writing. f PSYCHOLOGY PROFES SOR — Seen supervising pre-season gridiron practice at Chowan College is Jerry Hawkins, who also coaches baseball and teaches physi cal education dosses os well as being a professor of psychology and sociology DISCUSSION GROUP — Students at Chowan ore kept in formed by frequent visits from leoders in many areas of life, including many of the world's outstanding church men. Seen talking with o group of students at the college is J. Marse Grant, editor of "The Biblical Recorder." "IT'S THE LAW" — Intricacies of business involvement with legal procedures are being explained by Professor L. M, Wallace Jr. during one of his courses in "Business Low." PAUSE THAT REFRESHES — A gridiron warrior for Chowan's Braves pauses during pigskin battling ii^ East Carolina University^ football arena.
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