Printing Technology Offers Opportunities
By HERMAN W. GATEWOOD
Director of Graphic Arts
The Chowan College School of
Herman Gatewood, chairman.
School of Graphic Arts
Graphic Arts, where over
$250,000 worth of equipment is
used for instructional purposes,
continues its services to young
men and women seeking
challenging careers in printing
technology. The demand from
prospective employers for
graduates in the two year-
program continues to increase,
and many attractive offers are
made to those students who
choose to enter the industry after
completing their course of study
at Chowan.
Support from editors,
publishers, other newspaper
personnel and equipment
manufacturers enabled this
famed department of Chowan to
grow to the position it now holds
and become nationally
recognized as one of the
outstanding institutions
preparing young people for
rewarding careers in what
Benjamin Franklin called the
“art preservative.”
Recent surveys show that an
average of six offers of
employment come each year to
each student in the school who
plans to enter the industry after
his two years of study. A school
official indicates that
“newspapers and commercial
printers everywhere are in need
of trained personnel for
production positions.” The
growth of the printing industry
continues to open many job
opportunities, and prospective
employers are seeking young
women, as well as men, to fill
these vacant positions.
However, a large percentage of
the graphic arts students at
Chowan transfer to a senior
institution to pursue the
bachelor’s degree in Printing
Management or Printing
Technology after receiving the
associate degree here. The
college has entered several direct
transfer agreements to assit the
graduate entering a senior
institution. Among the colleges
and universities selected by
graphic arts graduates are
Arkansas State University,
Rochester Institute of
Technology, and Georgia
Southern College.
Almost all of the machinery
and equipment in the school has
been made possible through the
efforts of newspaper publishers
and equipment manufacturers in
the Carolines, Virginia and other
states. Many commercial
printers have also donated
valuable pieces of machinery.
One of the larger units used for
teaching purposes is a three-unit
News King web offset press — a
machine capable of printing 12
standard size newspaper pages 24
tabloid pages at high rates of
speed. The web press, identical to
those used by many newspapers
throughout the southeast, is also
capableof printing full-color
photographs in one operation.
The only school of its kind in the
southeastern part of the United
States, the School of Graphic Arts
offers complete instruction in
offset methods, including
typesetting, ■ camera operation,
stripping and plate-making and
presswork. High-speed,
electronically operated
photocomposition equipment is
used to train students in the very
latest techniques of typesetting.
Course instruction also includes
the operation and modern
process cameras, sheet-fed
offset presses, letterpress and
bindery operations.
Science Club Sponsors
Recycled Paper Drive
Recycling paper to aid the
economy and conserve the
country’s natural resources was
the goal of a newspaper drive
sponsored by the Chowan College
Science Club.
The 25 members collected
paper, mostly newsprint,
according to Professor Gilbert
Tripp, club sponsor. He said the
bundles were stored in Carrie
Savage Camp Hall on Chowan’s
campus and transported
periodically by Science Club
members to a reclamation center
in Roanoke Rapids.
“This project is in line with
President Ford’s call for
recycling and conservation of our
natural resources,” Tripp
explained. “The students were
eager to be of assistance. They
appreciate the assistance of
many interested citizens.”
Tripp said the club had
sponsored glass collections for
the past three years but the cost
to the club was prohibiting the
club from continuing the project.
He said the members had voted
to shift to paper collections
expressing an urgent ne^ to
recycle paper for the benefit of
the country.
Science Club interest in
recycling was evident on the
club’s entry in the 1974
Several Students
In Optometry
homecoming parade. The club’s
theme was “Misplaced Natural
Resources.”
Chowan students also
benefitted directly from the
project. “The Science Club is
using proceeds from the project
for the purchase of needed
equipment for the science
laboratories.” Tripp stated.
All students at the School of Graphic Arts receive
training on the very latest equipment. Here a
student "sets up" a lleidetberg sheet fed offset
press for a “run.”
Coy Lindsey Brown, Jr. of
Kelford, has been accepted for
admission to the Southern
College of Optometry m the fall of
1975.
Brown completed the two-year
pre-optometry program offered
by Chowan’s science department,
graduating with a 3^1 grade
average based on a 4.0 system.
Three other Chowan alumni,
Scott Edwards of Murfreestoro,
Mike Sternberg of Williamsburg,
Va and Bill Nethercutt of
Roanoke Rapids, are students at
the Memphis, Tenn.
school, considered one of the
nation’s finest.
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