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ChowanCoedsHave Unique Opportunities MURFREESBORO - Provision tor women students in the aca demic program at Chowan In cludes three unique opportuni ties. Women comprise approxi mately one-third of the student body and are found studying In all of the disciplines. However, the door is especially wide open in three programs: nursing, med ical secretarial administration and teletypesettlng. The nursing program com bines classroom instruction with working experience in two lead ing hospitals. Those successfully completing the 33-month pro gram receive the associate in arts degree in nursing. Facilities of Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie and Duke University Hospital in Durham are used with the program re maining under the control and su pervision of Chowan College. Mrs. Almira Ockerman is chair man of the nursing department. Students gain supervised ex perience at Roanoke - Chowan during the second year of their enrollment at Chowan. Along with regular academic courses, to meet requirements for degrees, they attend lectures and confer ences in medical-surgical nurs ing and maternal-chlld care, and care for patients under the super vision of their instructor in clin ical nursing. The program has received the accreditation of the North Caro lina Board of Nursing. Once the students have received their de- ^ AN IMPORTANT phase of the 33-tnonth nursing program is the supervised experience students receive at Roanoke-Chowan Hospital in Ahoskie. Here, Professor Sarah Tankard, second from left, assists several student nurses in the care of a patient. grees, they qualify for admis sion to the licensing examination and, upon receiving a certificate that they have passed, become known as registered nurses. Twelve were graduated from the class of 1970. A pre-nursing program Is offered students de siring to enter a four-year col lege program in nursing awarding a bachelor’s degree. New doors of opportunity for women in the graphic arts field have been opened through new and faster methods of printing, coupled with the need for in creased production in typesetting for printing plants. According to Herman Gate wood, acting chairman of the School of Graphic Arts, the in troduction of phototypesetting machines which are automatical ly operated from perforated tape has tremendously Increased the demand for perforator operators or “tape punchers” as they are frequently called. Chowan’s School of Graphic Arts offers a one-year course in the operation of tape perforators, and trains young women for well- paying and interesting jobs in printing. The demand for grad uates of this course is tremen dous, according to faculty mem bers at the college. “Requests come from newspaper production managers over the entire east ern seaboard, and we cannot be gin to supply the needed person nel,” Gatewood states. In addition to classes in the punching of tape, students re ceive Instruction in the “moni toring” of the school’s Linofilm Quick phototypesetter, the Morl- sawa Electra display machine, and In the "paste-up” of news papers and commercial forms. The curriculum is designed so that graduates will be valuable assets in any composing room and able to perform any task in the production of printing. “The field is wide open and the opportunity for advancement is good,” Gatewood relates. "Any young lady undecided about her future should Investigate the po tentials available in the fast- growing graphic communications field.” The medical secretarial ad ministration program also fea tures cooperation between col lege and hospital authorities. Under the supervision of Mrs, Pat Edwards, professor In Cho wan’s Department of Business, the program offers two complete years of study. This Includes an Internship at one of four hospi tals; Duke University Medical Center, Durham; Pitt County Me morial, Greenville; Louise Oblcl Memorial, Suffolk; and Norfolk General, Norfolk, The program Involves Inten sive study in medical terminol ogy, hospital procedures, medi cal records and other prepara tion for work In hospitals or for private physicians. Mrs, Edwards serves as co ordinator and her role includes regular visits to those who are interning as well as supervising the students on campus. She reports that the graduates of the program are eagerly sought for employment in the hospitals, private doctors offices, clinics such as mental health, pharma ceutical companies and other agencies. Chairman of the de partment is Thomas E. Ruffin Jr. Also offered is a program leading to a bachelor of science degree In medical science after transfer to a senior college. MARIANNE PUGH of Camden, a student in the Chowan College School of Graphic Arts, has chosen a career in printing. 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