10 1990 Chowan Opener
Chowan inaugurates new president on April 24
The inauguration of Dr. Jerry F.
Jackson as Chowan College's 20lh
president was held on April 24.
Baroque trumpets from the balcony of
McDowell Columns summoned the
processional of faculty and delegates in
full academic regalia. Guests luncheoned
on the campus green beneath striped
tents of yellow and white. An inaugural
symposium with a panel of experts on
'educating for the 21st century' intrigued
participants to discover new ways of
reaching students.
In his inaugural response. President
Jackson challenged the Boards of
Trustees and Visitors, faculty and staff
of the college, saying, "It is time for us
to return to our full strength. Chowan
was planted here as a four-year college,
and it is time for us to blossom once
again into a four-year coeducational
college."
A Four-Year Study Committee has
been at work for months examining the
issue of whether Chowan, a two-year
liberal arts college should become a
four-year institution.
"The Baptists claimed this particular
plot of Albemarle land for a college in
1848. A Baptist school was planted
here, and it has been tended and grown
well," stated the new president. "But, we
see there is a need here for new crops,
and new planting."
Crediting the former president of
Campbell University, Leslie H.
Campbell, for giving him first job in
higher education. Dr. Jackson thanked
the community and college 'family' for
their support of his presidency. He
remarked on Dr. Bruce E. Whitaker,
president emeritus of the college, who
served for the past 32 years, saying, "No
man in our time or in times past has
ever done more for Chowan College
than President Bruce Whitaker."
Dr. Thomas Corts, president of
Samford University in Alabama
delivered the keynote address during the
convocation. His address, which was
reprinted in The Biblical Recorder, was a
stirring reflection on the times we are
living, and the challenges we must face
today.
"We are told each person influences
500 people for good or bad every year.
Our Lord ... taught us we are helped one
by one. This college will never be what
(others) make it, as important as they
may be. But, it may very well become
what you intend it to be," Dr. Corts
concluded.
Greetings from the state were
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delivered by the Hon. Howard Hunter
Jr., N.C. House of Representatives.
Greetings were also brought by the Rev.
Gene Lee Watterson, president of the
Baptist State Convention of North
Carolina, William W. Hill, mayor of
Murfreesboro, Benjamin B. Ussery Jr.
from the Board of Visitors, Thomas M.
McCrary, from the Board of Trustees,
Phyllis Dudley Dewar from the faculty,
Janelle Langley Green from the alumni
of the college, and James D. Hobbs,
from the students.
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